Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parisian institution that lends its name to the production receives only a minimum of attention, which is just as well, since the poor 'Folies" as interpreted by cosmopolitan Hollywood seem to have taken on the Busby Berkeley tradition, all of which we greet with cautious skepticism and even displeasure. Although a prepossessing list of new songs are advertised, none of them seem very promising. It is the mistaken identify with which the film stands or falls, and as far as we are concerned we like this sort of thing...
...well. The pair took to copying little-known Millets, then to producing original works of art by Millet. To do this they needed only the skill of Artist Cazot, a chemical analysis of the original Millet paints, and a supply of old canvases, which they bought at the Parisian flea market for two or three francs apiece. When the market for Millets ran low. they produced Monets, Sisleys, Pissarros. The forging of Millet paintings was greatly helped by the fact that old Jean null Millet was in the habit of signing his canvases with a copper stencil...
...figures in the Benson show-garden figures, portrait heads, busts-were carefully wrought, eminently worthy. Like so many of his compatriots Sculptor Benson was a longtime resident of France. Left high by the receding dollar, he avoided Paris, ran a studio in the Maritime Alps, never copied Parisian sculptors. Last week he received guarded praise from New York's first-string critics...
...kill their unwanted babies. The one prohibition that has really hurt the tourist trade has been that of taking monkey-toed Tahitian girls out of their pareus and putting them into cheap print dresses. Last week this matter reached Paris and French Minister of Colonies Louis Rollin, a Parisian who has lately been preaching cooperation with the colonies, for the sake of French exports...
After the Communist has hidden four days in the Parisian lady's apartment, they exert a strange influence on each other. Three square meals a day, 59-franc shirts and a change of socks open the Communist's eyes to "soft living." The lady takes to reading Red literature. When her husband uncovers the situation, the lacy makes a decision. The Communist is on his way to Toulouse and his hostess is preparing to join in his political vaga bondage by ordering herself a pair of stout walking shoes...