Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood Ballet proved itself an organization to be encouraged. The young body of dancers, labouring under a severe economic handicap that forbade the assistance of an orchestra, presented a program of mixed value, with admirable determination. Although the musical worth and choreography of their first three offerings, "Danse", "Le Maitre A Danser", and "Le Bonheur, Feerie", may be strongly questioned, the company more than redeemed itself with the continued brilliance of its costumes and the excellence of "Hollywood...
Painting hard, occasionally exhibiting, Camille Pissarro soon joined a group of artists including Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne and Sisley who used to meet at a café known as Le Guerbois, on the Avenue de Clichy. In the oceans of talk at that café, the group gradually evolved theories of painting. They wanted to paint light, and they wanted to throw aside the moldy palette of the Academicians for pure tones, yellows, vermilions, emerald-greens. The friends of the café Guerbois had no name for them selves until April 15, 1874 when the Photographer Nadar lent them...
...committee appointed by the Council is as follows: Le Moyne White '36, chairman, Leonard P. Eliel '36, Milton G. Greene '36, Francis Keppel '38, William D. Locke '36, Neil G. Melone '37, Benjamin C. Riggs '36, and Henry P. Roosevelt...
...hire a theatre whenever she could afford one, practiced until her feet were calloused, took pupils to pay for her meagre existence. Recognition came when she was chosen to dance with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1928, again two years later when she impersonated the primitive virgin in Le Sacre du Printemps in the performances conducted by Leopold Stokowski (TIME, April...
...like a dog; he is sensitive, goodhearted, naive. Before long Isabelle finds herself becoming very fond of him. But the crowd that buzzes around him, dedicated to "wealth, unchastity, and disobedience to all standards," she finds increasingly hard to bear. Marc has one vice, gambling. One bad evening at Le Touquet he gets drunk, starts to play. Because it is the only way to stop him Isabelle makes a ghastly scene which costs her a miscarriage. After a weary convalescence she decides to leave Marc and marry a young painter who is just her sort. But at the last minute...