Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought of Hitler makes Frenchmen nervous as witches. Last week many a Parisian caught sight of an automobile whizzing by with what looked like the Nazi swastika flag. When they spotted a second and a third, they concluded that German Nazis were swarming into Paris. They rushed to telephones and babbled their information to the police. Then they went out into the street ready to tear apart the next Nazi automobile they saw. Meanwhile Paris police began to look for the mysterious Nazi cars...
...commodity, however, held so much hope for any one man as tin did for Simon I. Patino. Starting a poor native of the frozen mountains of Bolivia, he has wangled himself power and untold millions out of the tin mines in the mountains. Today he lives in a gilded Parisian palace, envoy extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Bolivia to France, with a daughter married to a Spanish marquis and a son married to a Bourbon princess, master in his own right of 15% of the world's tin resources. A rise of 4? a pound in tin, a rise...
...women whose ideas of a fashion opening are gathered from cinema or from the circuses which U. S. cloak & suiters stage in large hotels, would be disappointed by a genuine Parisian premiere. There are no orchestras, no spotlights, no elegant young men in cutaways. The rooms are elaborately decorated but a trifle dusty. Harried vendeuses in black elbow hip-swinging models about. Blue-jowled buyers scribble earnestly in little books. There is much confusion. One thing Paris couturiers have learned from Hollywood: to produce at each spring and autumn opening a certain number of freak gowns, shown only for their...
...sweeping U. S. department stores. According to smartchart scouts, the originator of the season's high hattery is the lovely Comtesse Francois-Guillaume de Maigret who persuaded Maria Guy to adapt a Tunisian Chechia on her return from an African vacation, and wore it with devastating success at Parisian race tracks. Other milliners hurried in with other high hats. ¶ Plaid evening dresses are enormously popular. In colors navy blue leads black for street wear; "string color," a tannish off-white, is most popular for sports. ¶ Elaborate gloves, jeweled, of wool, taffeta, velvet, net, are shown in most...
Divorced, Film Actor Maurice Chevalier; and Yvonne Vallee Chevalier; by a double divorce disallowing alimony to Mme Chevalier; in Paris. Onetime Parisian co-dancers, 1927 "lovebird" couple. they split on Chevalier's Hollywood-mania, Mme Chevalier's "extreme"' jealousy...