Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Le Touquet. We sat next to each other playing baccarat. I won and won. He lost and lost. He couldn't figure it out. Finally he asked me to show...
Richard Strauss's Le Bourgeois Gentil-homme by Conductor Clemens Krauss and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Victor, $6.50)?A Habsburg turned conductor gives keen edge to music of a rare, satirical cast...
...reduction on ad valorem rates, 50%, on specific rates. He thought and said: "We are now in the midst of the greatest worldwide tariff war in history." Heartily in accord were Charles T. Riotte, lace & embroidery man; Howard S. Cullum, Commissioner of the Port of New York Authority; Philip le Boutillier, president of Best & Co.; Wallace Thompson, editor of Ingenieria International...
...Le Million (Tobis). If any early cinemas are revived in 1960, they are likely to be those primitive comedies whose directors, dazzled by the speed and flexibility of the new medium, made their characters participate in comic pursuits, prolonged and exaggerated through a series of wild mishaps. The cinema has since mastered other and more subtle methods of achieving funny effects and a Hollywood director might have thought twice before resorting to the simple old pursuit device as Director Rene Clair (Sous Les Toits de Paris) does in Le Million. As in comic opera, with swift pictorial action and amusing...
...opera by showing the property man making a snowstorm out of paper, music lovers applauding before a duet is finished. Francophiles, whose excuses for cheering the French cinema were somewhat limited before Sons Les Toits de Paris, will be pleased to discover that Director Clair has made Le Million easily intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts-by revealing developments in the coat-chase through the conversation of two sleepy Englishmen who inspect the excitement from the roof of the hero's studio. Notable in a cast of brilliant French character actors is Rene Lefebvre...