Word: odeon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French estimation, to be director of La Comédie Francaise is to reach the pinnacle of the theatre world. But many there are who prefer France's second national theatre, the Odeon; for, in spite of its less famous history, it has managed to retain a certain air that is pure to all ages. Perhaps that is due to its surroundings rather than to its associations...
Ruth is the idle, startlingly pretty daughter, whose indolence makes her all the more charming. Raleigh Crane IV, heir to "the works" and back from Oxford is attracted by her, though only just freed from his last affair--that of Kiki of the Odeon. He pursues Ruth and is piqued by her lack of emotional reciprocation...
...need to comment on the Opera or the Opera Comique or on the Comedy Franchise or the Odeon either, for that matter, except to say that each of the latter two government-subsidized theatres presents a repertory season including the classics and semi-classics of the French stage as well as occasional new pieces. Almost equally well known in their way are the Follies Bergéres and the Casino de Paris, the two big theatres that house revues of the Ziegfeld Follies sort-only very much franker...
Mlle. Sorel is in the United States by special sanction of the French Ministry of Fine Arts which has jurisdiction over the two national theatres of France. The Comedie Francaise and the Odeon. She and M. Lambert and M. Ravet were sent here as a mark of esteem for the aid America gave France...
Again, the next afternoon, when the club will be in St. Louis, it has been invited to take an automobile trip and to go to an afternoon tea. In the evening the club will give a concert in the St. Louis Odeon which seats 2,500 people...