Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those U. S. citizens whose ears were reached by various versions of the London tale and who wondered why the U. S. Press did not rush to feature it were answered last week in the current number of Vu, weekly Parisian picture-paper. In its April 1 issue, Vu had devoted a full page to an account of the sextuplets' fabulous birth, pictured the six bouncing boys, told how Nestlé's milk had made them grow. When the last child was born, gay Mme Vicogne was reported to have said: "Let's call him 'Jean...
...improbable a collection of international oddities as Hollywood ever cinematically juxtaposed in a European hotel or an ocean liner. Their names were Soussa, Ankrom, Tiedtke, Lee, Deardorff, Lagache, Robyns and Zaman. They were, respectively, an Egyptian painter, Detroit barber, German hotel clerk, U. S. swimming champion, St. Louis secretary, Parisian stockbroker, Amsterdam diamond merchant and one-eyed Antwerp insurance salesman. Few of them spoke English. The difference in tongues did not confuse them in the least. They had met, not to talk, but to play billiards for the world's amateur three-cushion championship, being held for the first...
...Love Before Breakfast" years to be too, too smart. It is one of these pictures that tries conscientiously to be conscience-free. Whenever the sophistication peters out in English, the actors become blase in the approved Parisian style. For example, when Preston Foster invites Carole Lombard into his private office, she says, "Mousieur" and one sees instantly what a cosmopolitan she is. It's too bad the way Hollywood is forced to grind out pictures in such a furious frenzy. Clearly there is no time to write the small talk in advance, and the poor scared actors and actresses have...
...Island. Through some stupid blunder, the soldiers, to their great disgust, were offered 4-A, a skit called School Days in which frisky scholars tossed apples at their teacher and blurted low-calibre puns. To Stuyvesant High School, on the other hand, went 3-A, a divertissement called Parisian Nights. Intended for military consumption, this program included a scene between a bare-legged young woman, a master of ceremonies and an importunate young man. Sample dialog...
Distrust of Soviet Russia has been steadily increasing in official Parisian circles and many political leaders are gradually realizing that the road to peace is not fringed by a dense shrubbery of so called "defensive" mutual assistance pacts. The World War gave ample proof that defensive alliances with the resulting struggles for a balance of power were disastrous, and that such actions inevitably led to war. M. Xavier Vallett, another Nationalist deputy, speaking shortly after M. Taittinger, said that he opposed the pact because if would lead Germany to believe that she was being encircled. Such sentiments are truly encouraging...