Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plump, coquettish Adrienne Delamare, aged 12, wanted to marry brisk, bold-eyed Henri Pinteau, 17. Their parents not only approved-they begged that M. le President sanction by special dispensation a child marriage in violation of French law. M. le President considered the reason: a pink and squawling babe safely born Aug. 28 at which time he weighed nine pounds. "Mon Dieu," murmured President Lebrun, "Est-ce possible...
...most qualifications for success at the box office. Producer Jesse Lasky-one of the few oldtime cinemagnates who have kept up with the times-did a first-rate job which began with hiring Frank Lloyd, who made Cavalcade, to direct; borrowing Leslie Howard, who played the rôle in John Balderston's play, to act Peter Standish; using a new British ingénue, Heather Angel, for Helen Pettigrew. Heather Angel's name is not a pseudonym. Daughter of an Oxford lecturer who was killed in the War, she attended a London dramatic school, took...
...blight has begun to attack. Unforgotten is the disease which wiped out practically every U. S. chestnut tree. Plant pathologists have found that elms are now being killed by a fungus, Graphium ulmi. The blight reached the U. S. in 1930 in some Carpathian elm logs shipped from Le Havre. It accompanies the beetle Scolytus multistriatus. This is a small, short-beaked beetle which nips the tender elm bark and shoots near the buds. Graphium ulmi enters the wounds. First external sign of the disease is the wilting and yellowing of leaves. Internally twigs become streaked with brown...
After nearly a week of suspicious sniffing, Argentine Delegate Thomas Le Breton last week received in London his Government's assent and signed the international wheat agreement, drawn up fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 4). By it the exporting countries agreed to divide between them a total export quota of 560,000,000 bushels of wheat for the coming year, and cut their exportable production 15% for 1934-35. The agreement runs until July 31, 1935, provides an advisory committee to adjust quotas. Importing nations agree to lower their tariffs when the world wheat price has reached 63.08? gold...
Tarzan the Fearless (Sol Lesser). Although Japanese swimmers are by far the most efficient in the world, no one of them is likely to be elevated from his tank into the trees. The rôle of Tarzan in the cinema is reserved for U. S. paddlers like Johnny Weissmuller (for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Clarence ("Buster"') Crabbe, who are tall, ingenuous and shaggy at the ears. Crabbe has an advantage over Weissmuller in that he looks even less capable of speech. When he pats Jacqueline Wells on the chest in the last reel and says "That . . . mine. . . ." audiences...