Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opposition leaders were willing to help. Liberal David Lloyd George was still sick abed, but exact reports of what went on at the Labor councils were carried to his bedside. Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin left Aix-les-Bains, rushed back from vacation to confer mightily with Scot MacDonald...
Tall, imposing as a board chairman of the old school, is Basso Witherspoon. His gallant mustachios have greyed in later years, lost something of the grand sweep which might have enabled him in his Wagnerian days at the Metropolitan Opera (1908-17) to sing such hirsute rôles as Wotan and Hunding (Die Walküre) and Hagen (Die Götterdämmerung) with little extra adornment. Buffalo-born, great-grandson of a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Yale graduate (1895), he studied architecture before becoming a famed singer. After leaving the Metropolitan he did Wartime...
...les petites filles, the Guinan gang! They were nice to M. Epstein. He was nice to them. He let "these young goats" out of their pen to frisk in Havre. They browsed at good road restaurants, brought home tasty food to Tex. Within 48 hours les petites filles had M. Epstein so well in hand that he let Miss Guinan lunch (once) at Havre's Frascati's. Vive la petite fille?then bang! From Paris the Director General of the Surete Generale, M. Maurier, telegraphed that nobody was to be let out of the pen. M. Epstein, Miss Guinan & kids...
...characters participate in comic pursuits, prolonged and exaggerated through a series of wild mishaps. The cinema has since mastered other and more subtle methods of achieving funny effects and a Hollywood director might have thought twice before resorting to the simple old pursuit device as Director Rene Clair (Sous Les Toits de Paris) does in Le Million. As in comic opera, with swift pictorial action and amusing musical interludes, Le Million depicts its hero's vicissitudes. The hero wins a fortune in a lottery but he has left the lottery ticket in the pocket of an old coat...
...gangsters, the hero's creditors a crew of rascally lickspittles. He pokes fun at the opera by showing the property man making a snowstorm out of paper, music lovers applauding before a duet is finished. Francophiles, whose excuses for cheering the French cinema were somewhat limited before Sons Les Toits de Paris, will be pleased to discover that Director Clair has made Le Million easily intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts-by revealing developments in the coat-chase through the conversation of two sleepy Englishmen who inspect the excitement from the roof of the hero's studio. Notable...