Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Monsieur A Le Grand, proprietor of the French company which makes the sticky, sweetish brown liqueur called Benedictine, crisply told correspondents last week that U. S. citizens residing in France now handle bootleg shipments from that end. "Frankly these American bootleggers are the best of customers," said M. Le Grand. "We deliver our goods f. o. b. Havre or Bordeaux and are paid on the spot. For Benedictine we are paid $1 a bottle, and we do not complain, I assure you Messieurs. We are told that these same goods are sold in America for $10 a bottle...
...radio waves used in ordinary U. S. broadcasting range between 200 and 547 metres. Short-wave broadcasting uses waves around 50 metres in length. Last week "micro" rays only 18 centimetres (7.09 in.) long carried two-way conversations across the English Channel. International Telephone & Telegraph Laboratories and Le Matériel Télephonique of France made the test. Simple equipment did the work. Sending and receiving devices were practically the same. Each device consisted of a vacuum tube which transformed telephone frequency into the high micro-ray frequency of 1,600,000,000 oscillations a second. Wires carried...
...such headliners as Rubens, Fragonard, Van Dyck, Gainsborough. Gilbert Stuart, Cezanne, and those favorites of jocular undergraduates, Neri di Bicci and Pieter de Hooch. It was impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont de Bois, for which they would like to receive about $200,000. Almost alone of New York's important galleries, the firm of Duveen Bros, refused to take part in the show. Reason: Sir Joseph was out of town; his three brothers could do nothing without...
...Alban Berg's Wozzeck, for five years the talk of Europe. Not a singer but Conductor Leopold Stokowski is bound to be the hero of the occasion. Conductor Stokowski's enthusiasm for unusual stage productions was evidenced last year by his performances of Stravinsky's ballet, Le Sucre du Printemps and Schonberg's pantomime. Die Glückliche Hand.* But Wozzeck will be his first straight opera, the forerunner of others to be done with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company next year...
Jackson, next year's president, played the Grand Duke Paul, in the play recently put on by the club. "La Grande Duchesse et le Garcon d'Etage." This play was laid in modern France, and the female roles were played by girls from Radcliffe. As far as is known, there will be no play by the Cercle this spring. Some new members will probably be elected in a few weeks...