Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dance and pantomime. Director Clair, 30, was until 1926 a newspaperman whose novel, Adams, a story of Charlie Chaplin, had some success. He joined a Paris experimental art group specializing in cinema, produced The Italian Straw Hat, The Phantom of Moulin Rouge. International success began with talking pictures (Sous Les Toits de Paris, Le Million). For all his pictures René Clair writes the story and dialog, directs, cuts and edits. He has repeatedly rejected Hollywood contracts. Says he: "Hollywood wanted me for five years. If they are happy, they keep me; if I am unhappy, I must stay...
...woman, he no longer wants her. This is but one of the tragedies that mutilate the lives of peasant women when their men are at war. Madeline sees it all, her thoughts confused by the presence of a squad of German prisoners, who, contrary to all her visions of les sales bodies, are kind, good, sensible. The War ends. One morning Madeline finds some grey hairs; she is 30. She whose white skin so troubled young men before the War is doomed to celibacy...
...France was stirred by her first fear of the Bourbonic plague. Versailles was piled high and the long hedges moved out around the fountains. Colbert shook his head and brought out great books to show it could not be done. The Sun King cried out, "Batissez, batissez, toujours. Les etrangers nous payeront," and turned back to the fury of his building. And at last the mirrors reflected the fountains shining...
Mile. Boyer has not sung at the Monseigneur for many moons. During the season of 1931-32 she has had her own night club in Paris, Chez les Clochards, where she has become even more popular than before. This club is located in a very historic old cellar in the Rue du Depart, off the Boulevard Edgar-Quinet, in Montparnasse...
...more complete whole than in other countries, due perhaps to the influence of Geoffrey Tory. A large number of books shown are French. Among the most interesting may be mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose, Lyons, 1557 with woodcuts by "Le Petit Bernard"; and Geoffrey Tory's Aediloquium, Paris, 1530, illustrated by the author. Holbein's Old Testament and Dance of Death, although the work...