Word: marcel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Socialists gestured by throwing away 114 ballots on the obscure secretary of their party Paul Faure, scattered friends of former Premier Paul Painlevé (who announced that he did not choose to run at the last moment) gave him twelve votes, the Communists cast eight for Communist Leader Marcel Cachin (who lost his Chamber seat in the earlier election last week), and finally 59 members of the National Assembly dropped blank ballots into the ornate, Napoleonic urn. Cried President Lebrun of France, soon after his election: "In the most ambitious dreams of my childhood I never dared hope to attain...
...crowd that watched the opening matches of 1932 Davis Cup play at Washington last week was not really very much concerned about who would win. Everyone knew that the U. S. players-Ellsworth Vines, John Van Ryn, Wilmer Allison, Frank Shields-were too strong for soft-stroking Marcel Rainville and old Dr. Jack Wright, Canada's two best singles players. The real question was: had Vines reached anything like the form that won him the U. S. championship last year...
...movie is adapted from a story by Marcel Allard. The plot concerns itself with the vicissitudes of a young peasant girl, who is betrothed to a doctor, but runs away with her music teacher, and is married to him. The poverty of her husband, who is an opera singer, irks her and in despair over his jealousy she returns to the jilted doctor. Life with him is equally troublesome, and after another reversal of affections she again leaves him for the singer...
Engaged. Lucile Doumer, granddaughter of President Paul Doumer of France; to Marcel Pasquier, lawyer...
...particular interest are photographs of Marcel Pagnol, who wrote the French moving-picture "Marius" recently shown in the Geography Building, and of Andre Siegfried, who wrote "America Comes of Age." Other well-known authors represented are Andre Maurois, Jules Romains, and Jean Cocteau. Several Frenchwomen of letters are also shown, including Princess Bibesco and La Comptesse de Noailles...