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...Nous, La Liberté! (Tobis-Paris). French Director René Clair has made a brilliant attempt to do it all in one picture-comedy, romance, adventure, slapstick and satire on industry, prisons, society, the Machine Age and love. Amazingly, the film makes brilliant sense in every department, even to audiences ignorant of French. The picture opens with long rows of convicts tapping away at wooden toy horses. Two friends plan an escape. Louis (Raymond Cordy) succeeds, knocks over a bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 30, 1932 | 5/30/1932 | See Source »

Officially the Ministry of Labor admitted only 61,000 French unemployed last week, but La Libertè guessed "more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chamber Meets | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

...threatened to "bust King George on the snoot," was front-page material in London last week. Nearly every paper in the city reported the defeat of William Hale Thompson (TIME, April 13), in page-wide banners and lengthy editorials. Even in Paris the headline of La Liberté was BIG BILL BEATEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Boldness v. Wit | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

Last fortnight brought the first definite answer to the Koutiepoff riddle. La Liberté, Parisian evening daily, published a special edition, charged that six days earlier General Alexander Paul Koutiepoff was seen battered but still alive in a cell in Moscow's Loubianskaia prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: L'Affaire Koutiepoff | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...carrying a limp figure which was placed in a motor boat which instantly sped off in the direction of Houlgate. Other witnesses announced that a Russian merchantman had been lying off the mouth of the Seine near Houlgate for several days, that it disappeared on Jan. 27. La Liberté demanded once more the breaking off of diplomatic relations with Russia, invited Parisians to a monster mass meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: L'Affaire Koutiepoff | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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