Word: lyons
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Among Martine's previewers was a church group who reported to Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, archbishop of Lyon. Wrote the cardinal in his religious weekly: "The lowly and licentious film entitled Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie . . . is a scandalous display of vice." On church doors throughout France Caroline Chérie got a five rating on the Index of forbidden films: to be seen neither by adults nor children. Said Martine: "I'm flabbergasted! And what do they think about Mary Magdalene?" Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery...
Produced by Lyon Phelps '46 and directed by the wife of Law School professor Mark DeWolfe Howe'28, the verse drama opens at 8:30 p.m. and ends its run tomorrow night...
...that time he was a Yaleman after all. Thornton wrote for the Lit, joined the Elizabethan Club, quoted Goethe with Sophomore Robert Hutchins. Thornton's room became a salon, where he would read his plays aloud or hold forth on the gloomy beauties of George Gissing. Professor William Lyon Phelps exclaimed: "I believe he is a genius." Mr. Wilder demurred: "Oh, tut-tut-tut, Billy, you're puffing my boy up way beyond his parts...
Message on the Train. Ever the provincial, he orders his clothes not in Paris, but from "the best tailor in Lyon"; in his occasional travels he chooses not the first-but the second-class hotel. When cabinets fell, he always got on a train for St. Chamond instead of staying in Paris with the perennial hopefuls who clustered around the President's palace in the hope that, by chance or default, they might be tapped to form a government. He was a second-echelon minister-Economic Affairs-in the Queuille cabinet; in four successive cabinets he was Minister...
When the Faure cabinet fell last February, Pinay trotted off as usual to the Gare de Lyon. He was on the way back from St. Chamond a few days later when a messenger clambered into his compartment at Dijon with President Auriol's invitation to take a fling at forming a government. He had the brashness...