Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...insult their combined intelligences. All have heard of his celebrated bons mots, and a goodly proportion have probably attended at least one of his "evenings" in Hollis Hall. As well ask a cultivated Londoner if he has ever heard the name of James McNeil Whistler, or a Parisian if he is familiar with the works of Emile Zola. If there breathes a man who has been at Harvard for two years and still does not know of the hermit of Hollis Hall, he should be highly prized, for he is a rare growth. And yet it is difficult to describe...
...Vedder tradition evidently, that both Fish and Hope Weston are trying, in their respective manners, to get away from. Just how much nearer this brings them to Jamshid and Kaiko-bad may be a question, but certainly color helps out the illusion, sometimes magically-even though Fish seems oftener Parisian than Persian, and Hope Weston is rather like an orientalized English Rackham or Dulac...
...Kiss. There is no discernible reason why this musical comedy is not quite the finest in town. It started as a raging Parisian success; it was adapted by the deft Clare Kummer; it was peopled by the most competent cast that one could dare propose. Yet its excellence is not immoderate. If there is blame it must be laid at Miss Kummer's door. There is a lack of laughter. The company is much the same group that placed The Night Boat and Good Morning, Dearie among the tallest and most enduring of their type, viz., Louise Groody, Oscar Shaw...
OPEN ALL NIGHT-Paul Morand- Seltzer ($2.00). A brilliant, sardonic mind vivisects post-War Europe with the knives of irony and folly. Five adventures, five nights- Catalonian, Turkish, Roman, Parisian, Hungarian-five exotically unexpected women and their dealings with a cochon international. The distorted and rapid scene of modern life is seen as if under the concentrated and sudden light of successive explosions of flashlight-powder; incredible life-histories are compressed into a few pages. Morand is one of the most individual of modern French writers and this is the first American translation of his work-a translation, which...
...Parisian publisher who comes to learn...