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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Les Miserables (Twentieth Century). When he arrived in Manhattan to gloat over public response to his two latest works (see p. 53), Producer Darryl Zanuck last week told the Press: "The most notable trend in picture-making has been that resulting from the public's cry for cleaner pictures. Efforts of the producers to meet this demand have made possible . . . Copperfield, Miserables, Bengal Lancer, Richelieu. ..." Fortunately for himself and Les Miserables, Producer Zanuck was entirely wrong. Les Miserables starts in the slums, proceeds to a Toulon prison galley and reaches its climax in a Paris sewer...
...ballets which proved most popular on the road were Les Sylphides, Prince Igor and Petrouchka, all inherited from the old Diaghilev company. Most popular male dancers were handsome young David Lichine and the master Massine, who, at 38, is old to be dancing so fleetly. Most popular ballerinas were dark-skinned Tamara Toumanova, who owns the marmoset, and Irina Baronova who can act as well as spin. Both...
...Les Miserables" will be given by the French Talking Films Committee on Wednesday and Friday in the Institute of Geographical Exploration. Performances begin at 1.40, 4.00, 6.30, and 8.30 o'clock...
...Rhine maidens was a pretty young Jewess named Lilli Lehmann. Wagner wanted to adopt her but her mother, who knew the master well, objected. Lehmann was a light coloratura then and no one, least of all Wagner, suspected that she was soon to cultivate dramatic rôles and sing Brünnhilde...
...story is adapted from the novel by Pierre Louys, "Les Aventures du Roi Pausole." When the picture opens, the island is already dominated by Taxis, the King's eunuch, who has introduced a strict regime of order and repression. Then a young aviator blunders upon the place and naturally falls in love with Pausole's daughter. To escape Taxis' prying eyes, she flees from the palace and is followed by the aviator. Setting out, ostensibly to find his daughter, the King discovers that one wife is better than 366, especially if that one be the lovely Sidney Fox. The remaining...