Word: leroux
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second performance of Gaston Leroux's play, "Le Mystere de la Chambre Jaune," will be presented by the University Cercle Francais, assisted by the Radcliffe Cercle, at the Copley Theatre this afternoon at 2.15 o'clock. All proceeds will be devoted to the American Fund for French Wounded...
...University Cercle Francais, assisted by the Radcliffe Cercle, will present Gaston Leroux's "Mystere de la Chambre Jaune," in Agassiz House, Radcliffe, this evening at 8 o'clock. All proceeds of the performance, which is to be conducted on as economical a basis as possible, will be devoted to the American Fund for French Wounded...
...Polity Club, Deutscher Verein, Dramatic Club, Speakers' Club, Cosmopolitan Club, and many others of a like nature, could center their activities in the Union under the proposed system. The unfortunate effects of the keen competition of these many societies are seen many times. For instance, on April 8, M. Leroux, the editor of the "Paris Matin" and one of the most brilliant men of France today, spoke at the Union. He was in America engaged on a special mission to President Wilson. On the same evening, Mayor Curley spoke in Emerson Hall under the auspices of the Speakers' Club. This...
Speaking on "The Spirit of France Today," M. Hugues LeRoux, editor of the Paris "Matin" and special envoy from France to President Wilson, declared in the Union last night that 500,000 young Frenchmen were in their graves because of German materialism. He illustrated his talk with graphic descriptions of the heroic efforts of the French to save their country. France does not believe in war and the leaders would willingly stop fighting but the Germans feel that they are striving for liberty and have turned the war into a kind of revolution with the annexing of Belgium and France...
France, on the other hand, has a great ideal, the "blue sky limit" as M. LeRoux phrased it, which looks toward the uplift of humanity and the altruism of man, not the "objects on the ground" of the Germans. France is not seeking aggrandizement but rather the protection of her women and children, the preservation of her homes...