Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris all customs unions are viewed with alarm because the French Government is strenuously exerting itself to keep Germany and Austria from forming one and wants no bad examples set elsewhere. "Let us hope and trust," frowned Parisian Pundit Andre Geraud ("Pertinax"), "that Mussolini and his councillors will refrain from posing a problem so dangerous to the peace of the Adriatic and to Europe...
Frisco Jenny (Warner) is a slightly revised version of two earlier Ruth Chatterton pictures-Madame X, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small son, and Once a Lady, in which she was a Parisian prostitute with a small daughter. In Frisco Jenny, Ruth Chatterton lives in California and acts as a procuress-first to provide bread and mittens for her small illegitimate whippersnapper; then, from force of habit. While branching out with a profitable bootlegging business, Frisco Jenny keeps a scrapbook of her son's doings. When this scrapbook reveals that he is running for district...
...exhibition of rare French and Italian drawings of the eighteenth century from the collection of Richard Owen, the Parisian expert and connoisseur, is new being shown at the Fogg Museum and will remain there until Wednesday...
...abstraction, any change. More than this the Vagabond is an incorrigible romanticist to whose lights the very juices of a glamorous spectacle are good. He is bewitched by the surging crowds, maddened by a foolish, over-emphasized sport. He falls under the enchantment of fair ladyes, breathing an exotic Parisian perfume (twenty-five dollars an ounce in the year of our Lord nineteen-hundred and twenty-nine)and he remembers one, perhaps, who was intelligent; intelligent, and must the Vagabond confess, unattainable. So shall the eynic recant, with only the words, that if he heard a lecture on Saturday...
...photographs taken by Brady, several portraits of Jules Verno by Carjet, together with the portrait work done in 1880 by Nadar. Outstanding in the field of local color photographs are the Paris scenes of 1890 that will be displayed during this period. Those were taken by the eminent Parisian photographer, Atget...