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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French suicide-river so that he can sing to him. He is poor, penniless, a junkman, but he tells the little boy he is an antiquarian. That makes the audience cry. The little boy's mother is dead?she committed suicide?so Chevalier takes him to the junkshop. Later the junkman becomes the star of one of those French musical comedies where the girls roll their eyes like Irene Bordoni. Some of the songs are in English, but the better ones are French?"Les Ananas" and "Valentine." Best shot: young David Durand beginning to cheer up when Chevalier puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Before he was 12, Chevalier painted dolls in a factory at Menilmontant, near Paris. He tried to be an acrobat but sprained his ankle. Later he made three francs an evening imitating famed singers in the Casino des Tourelles. He danced with Mistinguette at the Folies-Bergere, went to war, escaped from a German prison camp to get back to the Folies. Ernst Lubitsch (the Patriot) will direct him in an operetta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

When the "Iron Man" returned toward Paris, he was met at the French frontier by three subordinates of the German delegation, bearing copies of the Young Plan. Three hours later Dr. Schacht reached Paris, and for two hours was closeted with Mr. Young. Both emerged in evident good humor. Quickly a special meeting of the Second Dawes Committee was called by Chairman Young, who rapped briskly for order and then said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Young Plan | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...gnarled von Hindenburg feet, the old tradesman decided to equip the new von Hindenburg shoes with solid arch-supporters. President von Hindenburg tried on the new shoes, walked across the room, walked around the garden. His knee pains ceased at once. In a few days his swellings had disappeared. Later an official communique was issued that President von Hindenburg's convalescence was at an end. How the merciful cobbler was rewarded, officialdom neglected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg Arches | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...rite of investiture with the gold and purple Garter was neatly performed next day by the Duke of Gloucester, just below the well-turned knee of the Son of Heaven. A few hours later the Order of the Chrysanthemum was bestowed upon Prince Henry?tit for tat?by the owlishly spectacled Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Imperial Garter | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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