Word: moi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first-night audience there which included Rockefellers, Astors, Blisses, Harrimans. Gibsons, Fields, Charles Hayden, Mrs. Dodge Sloane, Paul Drennan Cravath. Places cost $15 apiece,* the best champagne (Moët et Chandon Imperial Crown, 1921) $10 per bottle. Lucienne Boyer was unconcerned. In Paris ever since "Parlez-moi d'Amour" her songs have sold champagne...
...first job was as stenographer to a theatrical producer. When he dictated his first letter she confessed she knew nothing about typing, wanted a part in his play. The part was insignificant but one day his assistant heard her singing in her dressing-room, suggested a cabaret. "Parlez-moi d'Amour" was a simple, fragile tune but the Boyer version was so expertly tender that she became the talk of the town, the chief attraction to many a wealthy tourist who bought drink after drink and fancied that she was singing for him alone...
Some months ago in Paris gendarmes made the rounds of the newsstands, snatched up all visible copies of a scandal sheet called Ecoutez-Moi ("Listen To Me"), bore them off to headquarters, fed them to the furnace. The gendarmes were obeying orders from the Foreign Office, which had been stirred to action by the British Embassy, which had been outraged by an article entitled "The Prince of Wales is Bedworthy...
...Ecoutez-Moi proceeded to document a case which led to this conclusion: H. R. H. is in love with a commoner; his mother has given him until the end of 1935 to choose an acceptable wife; after that he must accept whomever his mother designates...
...less revealing than the story in Ecoutez-Moi, which detailed the crises in H. R. H.'s sex life, Liberty was certainly more polite. Typical excerpt...