Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montor is a Viennese, having studied at the Imperial Conservatory of Dramatic Art in his native city. He has made extensive tours throughout Europe, with long engagements in large German cities. He has been acting in this country for nine years, having played with Walter Hampden and Eva Le Gallienne, and is now travelling under the auspices of the Carl Schutz Memorial Foundation...
...first cinema rôle, which must have been easy for him to play since it amounts to very little more than an offstage noise, Claude Rains gives an alarming performance, almost as frightening when he is present as when he is not. Good shot: a poker, with which Dr. Griffin is planning to hit someone, stirring uneasily beside its fireplace...
...When Le Sang d'un Poet-Novelist Jean Cocteau's effort to use cinema as a medium for autobiographical poetry-opened in Paris last year its consequences were even more extraordinary than its contents. The audience at the premiere, expecting a conventional program picture, engaged in a riot. Royalists, always on the qui vive for a disturbance, attacked it for reasons of their own. His was not the only well-known Parisian name connected with Le Sang d'un Poet. Its heroine was Lee Miller, famed both as a photographer and as a model, whom Cocteau...
...taking him once more to see the Diaghilev Ballet which he had helped to make the world's greatest dancing corps. Only once during the performance did Nijinsky appear to see through the fog. Serge Lifar, a young protégé of Diaghilev, started to dance Le Spectre de la Rose in which Nijinsky did his never-to-be-forgotten leap through an open window. When the music started Nijinsky's dead, dumb eyes suddenly brightened. He turned to his wife and said, "Can he jump?"* Partly because of this episode, partly because Lifar, now ballet master...
...toes, taking advantage of three fumbles and one blocked kick to pile up four touchdowns and driving 63 yd. without the help of breaks for another. As usual, one touchdown and a heavy share of the kicking, passing and line-plunging were credited to wiry halfback Garry le Van who weighs little more than 150 Ib. and whose elusive hips remind Princeton oldtimers of Don Lourie...