Word: ledoux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minstrel goes to work on the baron's lovely daughter and becomes entangled in his own toils. His "brother," sticking more faithfully to duty, reveals her sex both to the devout Baron (Ledoux) and to his worldly prospective son-in-law. When the plot gets too complicated, the Devil himself turns up, disguised as a very nasty gentleman, and complicates matters still further. Arletty's lovers are certified for Hell; but Hell's unfaithful minstrel and his sweetheart, thanks to the white magic of True Love, fight the Devil to a draw...
...Claire Ledoux, an international trollop who has exhausted the capitals of Europe, Miss Dietrich sets up in business in 1840 New Orleans as a visiting countess. With a strictly professional faint she snags a rich, romantic, somewhat addled bachelor (Roland Young). A Russian dandy (Mischa Auer) who knew her in St. Petersburg arrives, and the strain of playing two people in the same town drives her to marry, not the Creole gallant, but a handsome, young riverboat skipper (Bruce Cabot) who met her in the park one day when his monkey got fouled in her carriage...
Died. Urbain J. Ledoux, 56, onetime U.S. consular servant and peace crusader; in Manhattan. Preferring to live with, minister to Manhattan's Bowery bums, he hid his identity, said: "I am nothing to you but bread and water." Cackled one: "I've got your number. You're zero. That's nothing." So he became their Mr. Zero...
...Human Beast (Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Ledoux; TIME, March...
Among the gifts to the library were a collection of letters and manuscripts of Edwin Arlington Robinson, famous poet, from Louis V. Ledoux, of New York; one of the finest private chess libraries in the country from the late Silas W. Howland, of Rye, N. Y.; a large collection of material dealing with Japan, from Dr. Ernest G. Stillman '08, of New York; and more than 2,000 illustrated and finely printed books from Philip Hofer '21, curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at the Library...