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...middle-class ideas they would not live in Clichy. Some of these shopkeepers belong to the new French Social Party, successor to the bourgeois Croix de Feu league of gentle manly and insipid Colonel Count Casimir de La Rocque (TIME, April 20). Last week the Social Party hired the Olympia cinema house in Clichy for a special showing of their film La Bataille. Communists at once protested. Paris police authorities ruled that entry to the Olympia would be by card only, and that evening a careful police cordon verified that everyone who entered the theatre was, actually a Social Party...
...Clichy began flinging paving stones, empty bottles and a little fierce rioting began with brawny wenches active in baiting police to "strike a woman." By now the crowd was swelling to an ultimate 10,000 and something like a total of 3,000 police were moving up. Inside the Olympia about 300 Social Party members sat watching on the screen The Battle, while outside battle was already raging or about to rage. From the Opera box of the President, four miles distant, the Premier sent dashing to Clichy his Private Secretary Andre Blumel and his Minister of Interior Marx Dormoy...
...real street war or suburban French Revolution by the time Premier Blum's investigators reached Clichy. The police, fearing a rush by armed workmen into the Olympia and a massacre inside, were now trying to evacuate the 300 French Social Party members and pipe them safely out of the arrondissement through thin police lines stretching through the crowd of 10,000. The crowd grew so ugly that gendarmes decided to clear the pavement outside Clichy Town Hall, and into it angry Communists retreated, hurling brickbats as they withdrew...
...unfairly competing" with A. P., refused to grant the injunction. When a U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed this decision, the National Association of Broadcasters decided it had had enough and withdrew. Carrying on by himself, sturdy Rogan Jones retained Lawyer William H. Pemberton of 'Olympia, carried the case to the U. S. Supreme Court when the A. P. asked for temporary and permanent injunction. For the A. P., counsel was handsome old John W Davis & staff...
...ATHEN-OLYMPIA--Have you ever seen a dream walking? Have you ever eaten dandelion greens? You have a treat in store? Call JOHN...