Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admirers of much-lionized Sacha Guitry merely shrugged their regret at the failure of Charles Lindbergh, remarking that, helas, the Parisian public has even ignored, this year, the "Lindbergh Dolls," of which tens of thousands were sold last Christmas...
Revealed last week by L'Illustration, famed Parisian review, was a hitherto suppressed and most significant fact: on New Year's Day, 1915, His Royal & Imperial Highness, Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany and of Prussia, sent a German captain and buglers, bearing a flag of truce, across "no man's land" to the headquarters of French General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail...
...constant offering to the nation was daughter after daughter, and never an heir to the throne. Troubled by this her failing, she resorted to mystic seances (Princess Radziwill includes table-tipping, which the Baroness denies) conducted by a smooth character who turned out to be ex-jailbird and Parisian hairdresser. This Philippe prophesied a son; the Empress believed herself with child; a date was publicly announced, and excitement ran high. But no child appeared-the Empress having suffered the undignified phenomenon of phantom birth...
Cleverest perhaps of "Great Catherine's" maneuvers was to publish an imposing Parisian financial daily La Gazette du Franc et Des Nations, in which her bogus stock issues were gravely and "conservatively" analyzed and recommended. The pose of "American Methods" was played up to the limit in La Gazette, which from the first vigorously championed the Kellogg Pact Renouncing War (TIME, July 30) a document none too popular in France. During the last session of the League of Nations in Geneva, the Swindleress was dazzlingly present, offering and paying the unheard price of 25,000 francs ($975) for short...
...picture shown is Adolphe Menjou in "His Private Life" and is a rather amusing Parisian farce. It is considerably better than the average comedy served, and one of the better Menjou offerings...