Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conditions were bad enough. For almost a week France had refused admittance to all but a selected few. Wounded soldiers, civilians injured in air raids had been turned back. There were no hospital facilities, on the Catalonian side not even the most primitive medical attention. Piled up opposite Le Perthus was a mass of suffering humanity that sprawled all over the roads, even covered the fields...
Seen off at Paris by José Maria Quiñones de LeÓn, unofficial agent of Rebel Spain in France and longtime Ambassador to France of King Alfonso XIII, M. Berard would say only that he was going to Burgos to "settle some questions with good neighbors." Obviously referring to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement trips, he pointed slyly to an umbrella he was carrying, called it "standard equipment on the kind of trip I am making...
...producer in England persuaded Bernard Shaw to sell picture rights to his plays. French producers have lately turned out genuinely original products like Le Roman d'un Tricheur and Grand Illusion. Hollywood, however, even when it was not deliberately repeating itself, repeated itself unconsciously. Gunga Din is an example of this unconscious repetition. Whatever there is to be said about the minor matter of barrack-room life in India has been more than sufficiently said by the cinema many times, most recently in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Charge of the Light Brigade and Drums...
Former Premier Leon Blum, originator of nonintervention, denounced his own handiwork in a leisurely Chamber debate, declared that non-intervention should be "reciprocal." wrote in his newsorgan, Le Populaire, that it was at present "inadmissible and intolerable." Said Deputy Alfred Margaine, member of Premier Daladier's own Radical Socialist Party: "We have been duped in the policy of nonintervention...
...Le Carnet Du Bal," by Julian Duvivier will be presented by the French Talking Films Committee on Thursday and Friday, January 12 and 13 at 1.45 and 4:15 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 6:45 and 9 o'clock in the evening...