Word: les
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Spencer Chaplin refused to participate in a command benefit vaudeville performance before H. M. King George V, sent the vaudeville manager a check for $1,000 instead. Shocked at this apparent affront to Royalty, the London Daily Express sent a reporter down to interview Mr. Chaplin at Juan-Les-Pins, France. The interview: "What's all this nonsense? . . . I received no command from the King, but merely a request from the music hall manager, named Black, to appear in a charity show. . . . Europe has bullied, misunderstood and misinterpreted me. I don't care a hang whether...
...Canadiens, with burly Gagnon and long-waisted Lepine playing like madmen, won the game 4 to 2, evened the series. Now it was the Black Hawks who had their hearts in their skate-boots, the Canadiens who were confident. With their cheering section, called the "Millionaires,"- chanting their battlesong "Les Canadiens Sont Là" (Tune: "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More") the Montreal team outplayed their rivals, won the game 2 to 0, the series, the championship...
...easing Winston out, in welcoming Neville in, there is a distinct probability that Mr. Baldwin was nominating his successor. It is no secret that he yearns to retire, that he wrote out his resignation as Conservative Leader while watering at Aix-les-Bains last summer, that pious Mrs. Baldwin made him tear the resignation up, invoking DUTY...
...Fine Arts Theatre reopened its doors this week with a French talking movie called "Sous Les Toits de Paris". The production is chiefly interesting as a basis of comparison with American films...
...French decorative art during the century, from Nicholas de Largilliere who retained most of the characteristics of the Louis XIV period, to David, who was the first of the neoclassic, painters. Among the groups which will be included are six excellent examples of Chardin, of which one is "Les Bulles de Savon", portraits by Grenze. Duplessis, Tuque, Proudhon, and Drouais, and two terra-cotta reliefs by Clodion. David's "Portrait of Mme, de Serdan" is one of the high lights of the exhibition, which also includes portrait-busts by Pajou and Houdon. Three of the four periods of Fragonard...