Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fascinated by the question whether Parisians are dirtier than the citizens of Madrid, that outspoken Spanish daily La Voz commented last week thus: "Curious statistics recently gathered in Paris show an average of only two and three-quarter baths per year per Parisian. Surely in Madrid the average is not so low! Yet we urge the bath strongly as a daily practice of cleanliness. The Greeks and the Romans bathed often but under Christianity, which demanded austerity and deprecated beauty, the bath certainly declined in some countries. The results were uncleanly habits with which too many Spaniards are unhappily still...
Jean de la Lune (George Marret) is currently the best cinema of French make on view in the U. S. It is the story of a young florist so unsophisticated that U. S. audiences will find it hard to believe him a Parisian. When he marries Marceline, the cast-off mistress of a friend, he takes her sulky neglect as a matter of course, never guesses at her liaisons, cheerfully supports her wastrel brother Clo-Clo. After four years of this. Marceline entrains for Nice with the latest of her lovers. Clo-Clo stays to break the news...
Cleveland's plaque, not terra cotta but marble, was discovered and owned originally by a Parisian antiquary and art critic named Eugene Piot. In 1864 Critic Piot sold it to a fellow pamphleteer, Charles Timbal. During the post-war depression of 1870, the entire Timbal collection went to Gustave Dreyfus, a French engineer who made money out of the Suez Canal. In its turn the Dreyfus collection went up for auction in Paris. It was bought in its entirety by Sir Joseph Duveen. The Cleveland Museum, which had already picked several choice morsels at the dispersal of the Guelph...
Lady with a Past (RKO). Like her small sister in She Wanted a Millionaire, Constance Bennett in this picture is an American girl who has adventures in France. She, too, is seen wearing fine feathers and patronizing Parisian cafes while trying to straighten out her romantic uncertainties, but in other respects the pictures are dissimilar. Constance, far from being the finalist in a beauty contest, is a girl of high degree who has found that the men she admires are unsusceptible to her charms. To make herself more desirable, she sets out to acquire a past, aided by a flip...
...Seldom has the Parisian Press been so excited about a crime as it was last summer when a hard-hearted criminal stole all the toy boats from the Luxembourg basin...