Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recently published Anonymous Letters: A Study in Crime and Handwriting, Graphologist Saudek discusses the writing of twins, U. S. blackmail letters, the rôle of handwriting in France's famed Dreyfuss case...
Jean III. Scrawls of VIVE LE ROI! on walls and sidewalks and roaring young Royalists swinging loaded canes were not lost upon a very tall, very dignified exile in Belgium. Two days after the bloodiest fighting the Royalist newspaper Action Française published a manifesto that had come by special courier from Brussels...
Catherine the Great (London Films) is more tender than The Private Life of Henry the VlII (Charles Laughton), more glittering than Queen Christina (Greta Garbo). But what makes this sumptuous pageant of antique Russia noteworthy is the presence in the title rôle of an able Viennese actress named Elizabeth Bergner...
...unreal with its slinky dancers and baskets of fruit as a Cecil B. De Mille cinema. Marigold was called upon to make two entrances in a floral cart, like Miss America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett as Wrestling came nearest to saving the performance. He struggled bravely to make the audience sympathize with the soul-wracked bigot. He sang richly, made words intelligible. Sample from the dream scene...
Lindbergh is, and always has been, a natural human being, blessed with great courage and ability, and with enough business acumen to see the value of well-handled publicity. Does Mr. Bartlett realize that his little tin-god told newspaper men to publish, as soon as he arrived at Le Bourget, the fact that he was a simple fellow, who brought with him some sandwiches and several letters of introduction; that his stay in Paris was continually under the guiding hand of that master diplomat, Ambassader Herrick, who saw the international value of Lindbergh's flight; that Lindbergh's return...