Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Le Dernier Milliardaire," scheduled to run at the Fine Arts till Christmas, is full enough of barbed satire, but instead of one great big thorn there are lots of little prickles. The trouble seems to be that a Frenchman has no where to aim his darts, and so he scaters them with carefree abandon...
...rapidly accelerating movement which aims to breathe the spark of living production into the library-bound theatre of Henrik Ibsen made its first local manifestation last week when Eva Le Gallienne presented "Rosmersholm." Now the eminent Alla Nazimova has added the bright flame of her talent to this Ibsen revivification by offering "Ghosts" for a two weeks run at the Colonial Theatre. The fame of the work renders superfluous any detailed analysis of its individual characteristics. A more interesting question is that of Ibsen's place in the modern theatre as revealed in this excellent production...
Enough money and enthusiasm was aroused to make possible a series of movies. From two performances of "Le Million," the number for each movie jumped to four and finally to eight. All but one of Rene Clair's films have been shown...
...screen. The Lumière camera which took them could be carried in one hand. The Edison camera of similar date was portable on a truck. Of the early projection machines, the Lumières' was manifestly the best, but it was bad enough, as M. Le President and the diplomats agreed last week. The august audience saw a French train of 1895 chuff into a station, watched a gardener wet a fat man with a hose. Today Auguste Lumière is dead and Louis tinkers with cameras and projectors for "three dimensional cinema." In another 40 years...
...personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate scenery. The Diaghilev company was peerless so long as it had Tamara Karsavina and Nijinsky who, according to Author Kirstein, established a landmark more with his stark choreography (L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Le Sacre du Printemps) than with his sensational leaps or his unsurpassed entrechats...