Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just as English drawing room comedies invariably deal with monocles and manners, French plays of the same genre invariably deal with manners and mistresses. The present consideration is no exception. Though it may conceivably have possessed a true Parisian twinkle in its French original, it has so suffered in transmigration that in its present form it holds little laudable except the heroic efforts of a good company to bring back the pennies that the Messrs. Shubert inadvertently cast upon the waters...
...Minister of Public Works Tardieu is known for his America in Arms. The Izaak Walton of the Cabinet is Minister of Colonies Perrier, who has brought forth two books on fishing. Minister of Interior Sarraut has written much on civil government. Finally there stand on many a Parisian bookshelf two fat volumes of poems by Minister of Marine Leygues...
Died. Jean Philippe Worth, 70, famed Parisian couturier; in Paris. In his youth he studied painting under Corot. Said Hearst Editor Brisbane: "He has gone to a land where there is no sewing. . . . His word meant more in real authority to the world's women than all the decisions of a thousand high judges...
Magda Lupescu, "the woman with whom he [Carol] lives" in Paris (TIME, March 22) was declared by the Parisian press last week to have every expectation of shortly increasing the number of his illegitimate children, of whom the most notable is the son of Mme. Zizi Lambrino, his one-time morganatic wife. Her suit to establish the legitimacy of her son (TIME, Nov. 29) was thrown out of court last week, in Paris, the judge considering that only Rumanian courts are competent to adjudicate the matter...
...with one's eyes open . . . leaves an indelible impression of chaos that is certainly without form, if it is not wholly void. Here one may see in a scant two miles (scant, but how replete with experiences!) treasure-trove of all peoples and all generations: Roman temples and Parisian shops; Gothic of sorts (and out of sorts) from the 'carpenter-Gothic' of 1845 through Victorian of that ilk, to the most modern and competent recasting of ancient forms and restored ideals . . . delicate little Georgian ghosts, shrinking in their unpremeditated contact with Babylonian skyscrapers that poise their towering...