Word: odeon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year ($75). Electricians who come clumping in to install the device bring a loud speaker and two pairs of headphones. Thereafter the subscriber may listen, every night and two afternoons a week, to whatever may be sung at the Opera, or played in such famed theatres as the Odeon or Comedie Française. Already half a dozen hit-show theatres supplement this list; and Le Théatrophone seems to have definitely caught on. One typically French restriction is imposed. The subscriber may not switch from one performance to another while the first performance continues. Having chosen his play...
...printed about the matter without having tried to bring it to the forum and working up a factitious interest in it? It was carefully stated that the "parliamentary rather than formal manner of debate" would be used. Figs! You might as well talk about draping the stage of the Odeon with meshed gold and silver and then put on a puppet show...
...town. If you look in your histories, you will find the tale?how Jean Hachette, Jeanne d'Arc of the days of Louis XI, saved the seige of Beauvais. Mingled in the yarn is a startling wolf attack. All the players were French, many of them borrowed from the Odeon and Comedie. Some of the technique was borrowed from the U. S. The wolves were borrowed from Russia. From this assembly, a vigorous picture has developed? in spots a great picture?but one that will cause D. W. Griffith scarcely a grieving gnash...
Students versed in the French Theatre asserted that the company was not the Odeon's "original." These same students agreed that it was, nevertheless, satisfactorily representative. To culture-seeking but untraveled Americans, it seemed a keenly trained troupe depending on team work rather than individual brilliance. Firmin Gémier, they thought, was an exceptionally intelligent actor of about the calibre of their own Henry Miller...
...Mich" as far as the Jardin de Luxembourg. On the left is the Pantheon, proudly bearing its inscription Anx Grands Hommes la Patrie Reconnaissante. With these thoughts the boulevard must be crossed ; and down the Rue de Medicis, past the famous fountain of the same name, the massive square Odeon looms up across the intersecting Rue de Vaugirard. Along the near side runs a colonnade under which the booksellers still have their stalls as they used to long ago when the Odeon was called the Theatre de la Nation. Here in the Quartier Latin is the Paris which lives...