Word: michell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Expert fly-fishermen regard dandified little George Michel Lucien LaBranche as their foremost U. S. authority. His Dry Fly and Fast Water is an angler's lexicon. Occasionally, for reasons which his friends have never been able to discover, he goes fishing in hipboots, cutaway, light waistcoat, wing collar. Fisherman LaBranche is also a stockbroker, and a rich one. He learned his trade at the swift hand of an authority as revered among brokers as is Mr. LaBranche among fishermen. For years he was secretary to the late great Speculator James R. Keene, whom J. P. Morgan the Elder...
...chest at Minnie Mouse, meets grievous setbacks, shrilly gives fight and taps out marvels of dancing, bullfighting, footballing.* Like his predecessor in world popularity, Charlie Chaplin, he has "the wistfulness of ... a little fellow trying to do the best he can." In Germany he is Michael Maus, in France Michel Souris, in Japan Miki Kuchi, in Denmark Mikkel Mus and in Spain Miguel Ratonocito. Last week he became Art. In Manhattan's Kennedy Galleries art critics piously eyed a collection of original Mickey Mouse cartoons from the Walt Disney Studios in Hollywood. Wrote one, "Genius . . . profoundest stuff . . . drama...
...settled down to write. His anonymous novel Democracy (the Washington Merry-Go-Round of 1880) was the sensation of a London season. His History of the United States is still eulogized by fellow-historians. But his two most widely-famed books, The Education of Henry Adams, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, were written for himself and a few privileged friends, originally issued in private editions...
...curtain raiser before the presentation of "Le Reve," a short feature, "Mont St. Michel," will be shown, and Pierre Brodin will give a short explanatory talk in French. Tickets will be on sale at Robinson Hall Annex on Monday, January 23. Performances will be given both days at 2.15, 4.15, 6.45, and 8.45 o'clock, and tickets will be void five minutes after the beginning of each performance...
...Louis Reau, author of sections of Michel's "Histoire de L'Art" will deliver an illustrated lecture on contemporary French Sculpture under the joint auspices of The Alliance Francaise and the Fogg Art Museum, at The Museum on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. M. Reau has had a wide experience in the field of sculpture and related arts and besides being at one time professor of sculpture at the Ecole du Louvre, was a former editor of the Gazette des Beaux Arts. The public is cordially invited to attend his talk in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum...