Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballets. In La Concurrence, two tailors fought comically for each other's trade and decked out half the dancers in richly colored furbelows. Les Presages, done to Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, was more obscure but in it Irina Baronova and David Lichine did a memorable passion dance. Le Beau Danube had an amazing mazurka done by Leonide Massine and Tatiana Riabouchinska (see cut}. Their footwork was incredibly swift and sure. But all the leading dancers were so expert that they made the most marvelous spins and leaps seem incidental. That was the way of the old Russian...
...massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet. Dead, some said, of poisoning, was the 13th reincarnation of Buddha, absolute ruler of Tibet and of many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise known as Ngag-Wang Lobsang Thubden Gya-Tsho. From Buddhists who traveled up from India in the 7th Century, over torrential rivers and through snow-swept passes of the Himalayas, the Tibetans adopted their faith-Lamaism. A powerful hierarchy grew up, with lamas (monks), priests, metropolitans, abbots, hutukhtus...
...into one script. A cast of Big Names had to be assembled for publicity purposes and yet a Nobody had to play Alice. Artist John Tenniel's familiar characters had to be imitated if not exactly copied. And finally the screen production had to stand comparison with Eva Le Gallienne's excellent stage adaptation for her Civic Repertory Theatre. When Alice in Wonderland was released this week simultaneously in 120 cities throughout the land. Paramount could well feel that it had done its level best to make Christmas bright and merry for millions of youngsters...
Munday, an unfrocked priest living peacefully with his piano in Le Havre, France, meets a young cockney sailor, Ayton, an attractive weakling who has deserted ship. It soon turns out that Ayton is completely untrustworthy and has done worse things in life than deserting. But by that time Munday, though not blind to his faults, is hopelessly involved with him. When there is danger of Ayton's arrest the pair take refuge with a poverty-stricken farmer and his wife. There, visited occasionally by three friendly Lesbians, they lead a simple life, and Munday has hopes of Ayton...
...speech about a National Repertory Theatre she smilingly told her audience: "I have a great treat for you ladies this morning. I have brought along Ethel Barrymore." Hearty applause died abruptly as Actress Barrymore strode imperiously to the platform's edge. Her voice quivered with rage. "Miss Le Gallienne does you great honor to be here," she began. "I do you honor to be here. I don't see why we bother to speak to you at all. You have no appreciation. You don't know anything. You never have known anything. You never will know anything...