Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week the Opera House was alive with white ties and decolletage, turned out to watch the American Ballet dance three premieres in one evening. Igor Stravinsky, who wrote all three, was on hand to conduct. His Apollon Misagete had never been danced in New York. Le Baiser de la Fee had never been danced in the U. S. The Card Party had never been danced...
...Le Baiser de la Fee (The Fairy's Kiss) tells how a baby is kissed by the Queen of the Fairies and parted from his mother. He grows into a handsome young man and falls in love. The Fairy reappears, kisses him again, and he follows her into the sea. Stravinsky meant the kiss to symbolize the bestowal of genius upon Tschaikovsky, called the whole work an act of "homage," pieced it together from Tschaikovsky melodies. The music was distinguished only by some new harmonic departures. George Balanchine's choreography proceeded unimpeachably, caused raised eyebrows only when...
...Premier Blum's own party discontent smoldered last week. The extreme Leftists were still kicking against his non-intervention in Spain, muttered angrily when Le Havre's Mayor Léon Mayer, during a meeting of the National Council of the Socialist Party, thundered: "We want no red flags, no Internationale, no clenched fists...
...loungers and boulevard philosophers were less absorbed in Premier Blum's political problems than in a treatise which he wrote 25 years ago, called Le Mariage, but which only lately crashed into the limelight. By last week these amateur reflections on the subject nearest to every Frenchman's heart had run to a 20th edition. The book advises young men "to sow plenty of wild oats." "not to love their wives too much when finally they marry." Other Blum tenets for successful marriage are: "Don't marry for love. . . ." Men should have sexual adventures, "otherwise married life...
...Anthony Adverse, found the Mauchs, signed Billy for the part. In Anthony Adverse Bobby Mauch's job was stand-in for his brother. He apparently discharged his duties faithfully. Actually he did nothing of the sort. When the picture was over, he and Billy confessed to Director Mervyn Le Roy that they had switched jobs whenever they felt like it. Neither Director Le Roy nor anyone else knew the difference at the time or in the picture...