Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help rescue the imprisoned miners. International-minded Director Pabst moved the disaster up to 1919, showed the reminiscent rancor of the War in an exclamation by the sweetheart of an imprisoned French miner when she hears that a rescue party is coming over from the German side. She says: "Les Alle-magnes?c'est impossible!" The Germans pile out of trucks, go down the shaft with gas masks. A French miner, muddled by fear and dazed by gas, when he sees someone crawling toward him in a mask mistakes his rescuer for a German soldier. Director Pabst never stops emphasizing...
...plans for the importation of several films direct from Paris. According to a statement by Mrs. Rand; "Paris is beginning to view motion pictures from an educational point of view, and have begun the production of many famous French classics. Moliere's "Mousieur Pourceaugnne" has already been completed and "Les Trois Mousequetaires" is now under production. The committee hopes to produce many worthwhile films during the year...
Loretta Young and Eric Linden, well suited to their rôles, are two of the youngest featured players in Hollywood. Linden, 22, made his cinema debut as an usher in Roxy's Theatre, Manhattan. A professor who had taught him English at Columbia saw him there, secured him a job with the Theatre Guild. He acted in Manhattan for one year, went abroad with a U. S. company, toured France on a bicycle, returned on a cattle boat, performed in television. RKO's Are These Our Children? was his first picture. To emphasize his youthful appearance, he seldom...
Though his friends said of him: "Marcel can never be anything but a man-about-town," Proust intended something different and bigger. Though his first two books (Portraits de peintres, Les plaisirs et les jours) were comparatively slight, attracted little attention, he was always taking notes for his Big Book, eventually filled 20 huge notebooks with material. After his beloved mother died in 1905, Proust retired from society, set to work in earnest. In his famed cork-lined (soundproof) room he lived, an invalid-recluse, for the remaining 17 years of his life, occasionally venturing out again into society...
French sportsmen are pleased and exhilarated over a new sport at the Riviera's foremost summer resort, swank Juan-les-Pins-races of thoroughbred cockroaches. Bookmakers cover bets of thousands of francs on each roach race. Racing roaches run in narrow tracks covered with glass. Each roach is numbered with white ink. At the starting line they are restrained by transparent covers. At the finish line is a large black box, invitingly open. At the starting signal a strong light is switched on behind the roaches, their covers removed. Mortally hating bright lights, the roaches run for the darkness...