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...Nous, La Liberté! (Tobis-Paris). French Director René Clair has made a brilliant attempt to do it all in one picture-comedy, romance, adventure, slapstick and satire on industry, prisons, society, the Machine Age and love. Amazingly, the film makes brilliant sense in every department, even to audiences ignorant of French. The picture opens with long rows of convicts tapping away at wooden toy horses. Two friends plan an escape. Louis (Raymond Cordy) succeeds, knocks over a bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes...
...stirred by her first fear of the Bourbonic plague. Versailles was piled high and the long hedges moved out around the fountains. Colbert shook his head and brought out great books to show it could not be done. The Sun King cried out, "Batissez, batissez, toujours. Les etrangers nous payeront," and turned back to the fury of his building. And at last the mirrors reflected the fountains shining...
After asserting they had no part in the irregularities, Mr. Bob's associates held long, mysterious meetings, still maintained their chief's return was not far distant. In the offices of Rainbow Lumi nous Products, directors met for hours, hinted that new, strong interests were about to take hold, found the company decidedly solvent With these events the upward climb of Charles V. Bob seemed gravely impeded if not permanently halted. His whole story is the tale of a mining man who turned from the search of natural metals for the easier gold that lies...
Great was the impression made by General Pershing's "Lafayette, we are here." Perhaps he would have caused an even greater thrill had he said, "Lafayette, nous sommes arrivés." But it remained for another U. S. soldier and statesman to make so perfect a gesture. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, after taking oath last week on his late great father's presidential Bible as ninth U. S. civil governor at San Juan. Porto Rico, spoke in Spanish the first 200 words of his inaugural speech. The remainder of the speech was delivered in English, but inasmuch...
...French chauffeur, and if one has waited in the sun all morning at the wheel of a Bugatti or a Farman* then what joy, what exhilaration, when one's fat Spanish employer and a couple of his "little girls" scramble into the tonneau, crying, "En route Henri! Nous sommes pour Biarritz...