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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first ten days of Spring and Fall showings are secret affairs, by invitation only. Prior to this there are even more exclusive Private Views, with champagne and salad at the bigger & better houses, a custom begun in 1921. Jean Patou, as every schoolgirl knows, has an elaborate modernistic cocktail bar, free to customers, favored friends and to all comers admitted to an Opening. To Jean Patou first flocked last week's observers...
...French novelists write of the lighter side of love. Author Mauriac, serious though not quite gloomy, here chronicles with particularizing finger the ill fortunes of love in a French family of the Gironde (southwestern department of France). The book is really two novels whose characters are related. First part: Jean Pelouéyre, repulsive but sensitive only son of a rich hypochondriac, has a marriage arranged for him by his father and the priest. The bride is a lovely, sturdy peasant who does not dream of disobeying the priest's order but who shrinks physically from her physically horrible...
Died. Margaretta. 16-month-old daughter of Ralph Pulitzer, retired president of Press Publishing Co. (New York World and Evening World); at St. Jean de Luz, where the Pulitzers were vacationing...
Natal-Dakar. Although the South Atlantic has been flown many times from east to west, the eastward route has yet to yield passage to an airplane. Last week Jean Mermoz, pilot for Aeropostale, and two companions took off from Natal, Brazil, flew 16 hours, landed 350 mi. short of Dakar, Africa with a leaky oil line. Flyers and mail were picked up by the despatch boat Phocée, but the seaplane had to be abandoned. Mermoz recently flew the first westbound mail from Senegal to Natal, pioneering a prospective Aeropostale service (TIME...
...Prince soon adored each other; he thought of a morganatic union. But when he foolishly sought the Pope's assistance in annulling his marriage, the Emperor heard of it and made him promise to see Marie only once again. Rudolph kept his word. Author Claude Anet (real name: Jean Schopfer), onetime (1892) French tennis champion, collects Persian art, has translated from the Russian Pushkin, from the Persian Omar Khayyam. Other books: End of the World, While the Earth Shook, Ariane...