Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Leopold ("Witching") Auer, 79, famed violinist, to Mme. Wanda Stein, 49, "a friend of long standing"; in Manhattan...
...more easily translated morceaux choisis is a list of mourners whom the ex-President has requested to attend his funeral: "Jean, Millerand's son; the Unknown Soldier; Maman Canti [canti, name given to profiteering junk-dealers]; Mme. Vichère [composed of vie, life, chère, dear?high cost of living] ; l'Abbesse du Franc [Abbesse means abbess, but it is here a play on the English word abyss; hence, the abyss of the franc, an allusion to the franc's tremendous fall in the Spring (TIME, Mar. 17) when Millerand was President...
Another section of the "will" is a bequest made to Mme. Rasimi (well-known Parisienne entrepreneuse and directress of the Ba-ta-Clan Theatre, where Millerand once delivered a famed address) of "a republic entirely done over and entirely renovated and a demolished National Bloc, all of which is to be used as accessories for a new comedy which is destined to change the Ba-ta-Clan into a Washout Palace...
...Paris, Professor Albert Calmette, Assistant Director of the Pasteur Institute, "a man of eminence and discretion," stepped to the lectern of the Academy of Medicine. Before him sat distinguished savants, among them Mme. Curie and Prof. Pierre Roux. From his quiet, austere laboratory Calmette had brought with him papers that were the fruit of 20 years' patient inconspicuous labor. Calmette read, finished, the chamber vibrated with vociferous applause...
...second festival was under the direction of Monsieur Walther Straram, who had recruited his forces from Italian, French, American and other sources. Mme. Ganna Walska was patroness and guiding spirit, and the costumes were the last word in sumptuousness. The language was Italian...