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Word: maigret (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lasky) is probably the most complete casual picture ever offered as the first production of a new company. It is abo a kiss in a theatre. Philippe Martin (Fracis Leder) gets seat No.99 instead No. 66 and Mile Pelerin (Ida Lupino)the kiss intended for Yvonne (Countes Liev de Maigret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...Rainy Afternoon succeeds by carefiul artistry in not being quotable. It not being quotable. is a musical comedy without words and without plot. Its virtue is its nonchalance which inexplicably becomes a striking feat of dramaturgy. Typical characters: Countess de Maigret as the wife whose idea of an escapade is to ride around the block in a taxicab with a lover who can be with her only in dark motion picture houses; Hugh Herbert as the theatrical prompter who, when off duty, prompts from force of habit the conversational clichés of those around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...STRANGE CASE OF PETER THE LETT -Georges Simenon-Covici, Friede ($2). Inspector Maigret, mystified by duplex identity, spurred by sorrow, exhibits super-human activity, and bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jun. 26, 1933 | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...crowned hats, adaptations of Arab fezzes, pill boxes, Cossack and clown hats, now sweeping France as copies of the Camel cigaret slouch hat are sweeping U. S. department stores. According to smartchart scouts, the originator of the season's high hattery is the lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors navy blue leads black for street wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Higher Hats, Lower Waists | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

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