Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...India from time to time. During such absences Queen Mary and a Council of State will reign in London with powers delegated by the King. They start reigning next month when His Majesty & friends move into the flamboyantly modernistic French Château de I'Horizon at Juan-les-Pins which he has rented from oldtime Actress Maxine Elliott. Last week Britons viewed bug-eyed in their illustrated papers pictures of this Hollywood setting, complete with ''artificial moonlight" and a practical joke swimming chute. Fun is had when a guest sits down and lets go, only...
...Manhattan last week there were more cheers than ever for Toumanova, Baronova, Riabouchinska, Lichine, Massine. High spot of the engagement was to come with the revival of Stravinsky's Les Noces, for which Nijinsky's sister Bronislava has traveled especially from Europe to direct the choreography...
...elections recentes le Cercle Francais a choisi Peter L. Scott '38 pour president. Laird M. Ogle '37 et William V. Linde '37 ont ete choisis vice-president et secretaire-tresorier respectivement. Le Cercle sous les auspices de l'Alliance Francaise de Boston presentera a Boston le 25 avril "La Dame de Bronze et le Monsieur de Cristal," piece de Henri Duvernois. Mademoiselle Germaine Arosa dirigera la piece. La distribution des roles comprendra M. M. Robert Turner '37, Bruce Leighton '38, Summer Willard '37, et Richard G. Wheeler...
...several places has carelessly forewarned the reader of what will happen twenty pages ahead. His interest in the background is so great that the principal characters become almost incidental--a hardly fitting situation for light fiction however suitable it may be for something with the scope of "Les Miserables." The story is perfectly adequate for a two part novelette, but has been spread out too far to make a full sized book...
Since Messieurs les Ronds-de-Cuir ("Gentlemen of the Leather Pads," functionaries of the French State who sit on leather pads) are the class of voters perhaps most devoted to M. Blum, they would expect to get even better jobs and more of them in the Socialist Bureaucracy his new French deal would create. With approval Orator Blum has hailed what he calls the "bold grandeur" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "sound ideas...