Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime friend of the Duke of Windsor, liked it and bought it. So last week did Mrs. Charles Crocker of Manhattan; Mrs. D. J. Sayman of St. Louis; Mrs. Herbert Mavre of Glencoe, Ill.; Mme Alfira de Riglos of Buenos Aires; Mrs. Charles Hanna of Cairo; Mlle Jean Mastbaum of Paris...
...wrote The Lower Depths in 1902 to show the disease, despair and degradation of human beings at the bottom of Russia's Tsarist pile. Gorki's pre-Soviet cellarful of morbid, introspective thieves, drunkards and derelicts has been brought to the screen by France's Director Jean Renoir (Madame Bovary, Toni), son of the impressionist painter. In a foreword he announces his film as "human" rather than specifically Russian drama. For realistic squalor and decay Renoir copied the 1936 slums of Villeneuve-la-Garenne, Paris suburb...
...Pepel (Jean Gabin), a handsome thief, lives in a basement flophouse run by a receiver of stolen goods, Kostylev (Vladimir Sokoloff) and his wife Vassilissa (Suzy Prim), Pepel's mistress. Other muttering, miasmal inmates are: an alcoholic actor, a streetwalker addicted to reading sentimental novels aloud, and a genuine bankrupt baron who abandons his palace to live in filth. Threatened by the police, Vassilissa attempts to force her pretty little sister Natacha (Junie Astor) to marry a pudgy, petty official. In a resulting brawl old Kostylev is killed and Pepel goes to jail. A new ending, wildly...
...There will be no entrance examinations, tuition, compulsory attendance, class or racial distinctions. Classrooms are on the ground-floor to obviate stair-climbing for the incapacitated. Upstairs are living quarters for those unable to go back & forth. Food costs will be shared. Dr. Sharp's widowed sister, Mrs. Jean Torson, will act as housemother. What courses will evolve remains largely a matter of what subjects interest the oldsters most...
They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris); Topper (Roland Young, Gary Grant, Constance Bennett); Saratoga (Jean Harlow, Clark Gable); The Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut); The Spanish Earth (directed by Joris Ivens with commentary by Ernest Hemingway) ; Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Olympe Bradna...