Word: od
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first and the latest American Ambassadors to France have both delighted Frenchmen. They like Myron Timothy Herrick, and they thought Benjamin Franklin was délicieux. Therefore Parisians were a-tiptoe with anticipation, last week, as the state-owned Théâtre de L' Odéon (second only in kudos to the Comédie Francaise) started rehearsing Pauvre Richard...
...will be on the night of March 22, 1929, not an anniversary of anything but, roughly speaking, the Sesquicentennial of B. Franklin's arrival in Paris. The play, by Playwright Louis Evan Shipman of Manhattan will be the first by a modern U.S. author ever presented at the Od...
...Constitutional Monarchists of Ziwar. At the polls Ziwar had eked out a small majority. But, as is the case of Mr. Collidge's Victory in the U. S., his majority at the pools did not carry with it a majority in the legislature. As soon as the Chambers od Deputies organized, that fact was evident. Promptly Zaghlul was elected President of the Chamber. Equally promptly did Ziwar secure the dissolution of Parliament? ten hours after it assembled...
...Odéon. Two years ago, Russia contributed the Moscow Art Theatre; last season, Italy gave us Duse; Firmin Gémier and his Odéon troupe are the famous foreigners who talk to the playgoer in an unfamiliar tongue this season. Their talk is French...
...always breaking away from the harsh, mechanical traditions of the Classical Age and reserving to himself an intelligent freedom of interpretation. Finally recognized officially, not so much for his acting as for his ability to produce and manage, the Government made him directeur du Theatre National de l'Od...