Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seventh Heaven" is a play of Parisian low life, the love story of a sewer rat and a girl "who has not been good." Its theme is the philosophic observation of Boul' ("short for boulevard") the good-hearted and light-fingered cabman: "We sinners make the best saints." From the depths of sewer and street in the first act, its hero and heroine rise to Heaven in the second and third, their paradise the dingy seventh floor room of a tenement...
...carrying on the work upon which we have set out." Next it painted an orange circle upon each of its planes, painted a charging black bull buffalo within, and zoomed off with more bombs. Critics admired the brushwork of Captain Lansing and Lieutenant Cousins, both well known in American-Parisian junior art circles. Captain James ("Red") Mustane's technique was declared so faulty as to have produced a sea lion instead of a bison...
Then suddenly, the attacks on Dr. Weizmann's administration from the fiery Russo-Jewish-Parisian swashbuckler, Jabotinsky, became so bitter that the Weizmann group insisted on a special rate of confidence in their leader with a view of his reelection. But two-thirds of the delegates refused to vote. Confusion spread. Dr. Weizmann stung by the ingratitude of Jewry, resigned, refused reelection. Confusion was confounded...
Back of the last row in a famed Parisian theatre, an old man leaned heavily on his cane. A bushy white beard he had, and silken hair on his head, tres distingue...
...flirting with a second and in love with a third. The fact that the third is the son of the first by an earlier marriage accounts for the title ? if anything can account for so fearful a title. Why they did not rest in the Parisian name, Mile. Mama, is not known. Edwin Nicander and Kenneth MacKenna assist competently. The net result is a fair farce, fairly well done...