Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is a dissertation on Mr. George Arliss. Several years ago George Jean Nathan said a last word, almost an epitaph, over Mr. George Arliss. Nathan had just seen the celebrated actor in a famous part, and he jotted for his journal the simple comment that Mr. George Arliss splendidly portrayed Hamlet as Mr. George Arliss. That is all that need be said of "The Working Man" now playing at the University Theatre. It is a typical Arliss play, about a self-made old gentleman who still holds his own in the world and proves to his worthy whippersnapper heir...
Corsica's chief exports to France have been olives, Napoleon Bonaparte and Paris Police Chief Jean Chiappe. Two years ago Corsica's chief imports were General Fournier, 800 gendarmes, armored cars, airplanes and bloodhounds to hunt out Corsica's fourth best-known product: burly, pouting Bandit Andre Spada. Spada, whose name means ''sword," acquired much newspaper fame from loose comparisons of his activities with those of the oldtime Corsican mountaineers. who waged simple vendettas against one another. Andre Spada was just a gangster...
Romain Rolland wrote an epic about an individual (Jean Christophe); John Galsworthy wrote one about a family (The Forsyte Saga); but Jules Romains' magnum opus will seek comparison with an earlier, more comprehensive epic: La Comedie Humaine of Honoré de Balzac. No mere tetralogy, its author himself does not say how many volumes will go to make up the whole. Its purpose: to give a true picture of Paris in the 20th Century. No individual, no family history could adequately cover so broad a scene. Says Author Romains: "What I see before my eyes is life...
...master Sampeyre, Germaine Baader wakes up, Wazemmes goes to the races. Gurau, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Germaine's lover, has lunch with her and tells her about a speech he is going to make in the Chamber which will ruin the oil interests. Young Jean Jerphanion, on the train to Paris, dreams of his exciting future. Quinette meets the murderer by appointment, extracts a half-confession. Wazemmes is picked up by a fashionably dressed lady, who invites him to her apartment and treats him very nicely...
...months because of the small size of the conscript classes of 1934-5-6, born in Wartime. The Military Governor of Paris, one-armed General Henri Gouraud, announced mass training for the Paris population against gas attack this summer, under the direction of that effervescent Corsican, Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe...