Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like frail children. They get the most devoted care, but seldom get any exercise, grow any muscle, gain any weight. In the quarter-century before 1937, Manhattan saw only four such theatres survive adolescence: the Theatre Guild, the Provincetown Hay-house, the Civic Repertory Theatre (thanks to Director Eva Le Gallienne), the Group Theatre (thanks chiefly to Playwright Clifford Odets...
...continental Europe opera is usually sung in the language of the country where it is produced. Thus in Germany Pagliacci becomes Bajazzo, in Italy Tristan nnd Isolde becomes Tristano e Isotta, in France Götterddmmerung becomes Le Crepuscule des Dieux. In England and the U. S. opera is usually given in its original language. But from time to time British and U. S. producers have interested themselves in the idea of translated opera and have tried out performances, even entire seasons, of opera in English...
Reporting sorry figures to its stock-lolders, many a company took occasion to snap at the Government. Tartest comment was provided by Chairman Edward Joel Cornish of National Lead Co. When le blamed the New Deal for a 30% slump in National Lead business, a stockholder piped up to ask: "If you disagree with President Roosevelt, have you anything to offer except to go back to where we were?" Retorted Mr. Cornish: "When I get lost that is what I try to do-go back to where I started from...
...French Talking Film Committee today presents in the Institute of Geographical Exploration Emile Zola's "Le Reve". The film will be shown four times, at 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, and 9 o'clock. Tickets may be obtained at Hunt Hall...
...worst shape of all, however, was the respectable 54-year-old Catholic Nationalist Echo de Paris. Last week it was finally rescued by and merged into veteran Leon Bailby's struggling Rightist Le Jour. Le Jour, now Le Jour-L'Echo de Paris, lost, however, one of Echo's biggest assets: Anglophile André Géraud, better known as Pertinax, one of the best connected of the many well-connected political writers in France. His political dispatches which sparkle like champagne at a diplomat's table have long appeared in the London Telegraph...