Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reinhardt has taken in too many thousands of dollars in the show business to fall under suspicion as a disgruntled producer turned "arty." He has staged morality plays in gay Vienna in such a way that competing bedroom farces and Parisian revues forthwith perished of box-office anemia. But he realizes (as did Richard Wagner) that there is a distinction between the commercial theatre and the art theatre. Both are forms of entertainment, but one provides the audience effortless amusement; the other demands an audience of willing imagination. Reinhardt has surrendered the masses to the movies and incorporated producers...
Married. Lucien Lelong, selfstyled inventor of the "kinetic theory* of feminine dress," and smart, leading Parisian couturier; to Princess Natalie Paley, daughter (by a morganatic marriage) of the late Grand Duke Paul, an uncle of Tsar Nicholas II; at Paris...
Carol. Likewise barred from attending King Ferdinand's funeral was his eldest son, Carol. This somewhat notorious prince, father of King Michael, still lives in seclusion in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. He has espoused, respectively in morganatic and natural union, two ladies of nonroyal blood: Mme. Zizi Lambrino, who has borne him a son, Mircea, older by two years than Michael; and Mme. Magda Lupescu, who some time ago displaced Mme. Lambrino (TIME, March...
...Prince of Head Waiters (Lewis Stone). The Parisian hero is torn from his newlywed U. S. bride, because her father, of haughty Boston ancestry, cannot tolerate a penniless artist in the family. Twenty years later the embittered man is a head waiter in a superior U. S. eating-place. While on duty, he has occasion to save a youth (Robert D. Agnew) from a blond siren of the "swell-restaurant" set. The youth turns out to be the head waiter's son. Thus Destiny led the man without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand...
...most modern, multi-engined airplanes of maximum safety and comfort" and thus speed the arrival of the day when engaging a sky-parlor car seat from Chicago to Denver, New Orleans or New York, and back, will be as little a novelty as it already is for a Parisian to slip over to London or Berlin for dinner...