Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cock of the Air (Howard Hughes), which was vigorously censored before release, emerges as a not particularly happy Wartime farce in which Chester Morris, as a scatter-brained aviator, jokes with, flies with, drinks with, wrestles with and finally suggests matrimony with Billie Dove, as a Parisian actress, whose costume armor is heard clanking to the floor at the end of the picture. Typical shot: Chester Morris squirting seltzer at Billie Dove when she slaps him for an improper proposal...
Mata Hari (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the legends about Mata Hari, a Parisian cabaret dancer who was executed for espionage during the War, says that she was unable to break herself of the habit of taking off her clothes at crucial moments and was therefore naked when she faced a French firing squad. This episode is omitted from the Greta Garbo version of the affair, which ends as Miss Garbo, majestic in black, is walking down a long corridor between two lines of soldiers. Her lover (Ramon Novarro) is a blind aviator who has said good...
...include Paul Swan and Hubert Stowitts. Slim, classic-featured Mr. Swan used to perform rhythmic rites in dark theatres on Sunday nights. Now he covers large canvases with intricate designs, all highly symbolical. Before he turned to painting racial types of India Mr. Stowitts attracted considerable attention in the Parisian press by posturing at private parties completely nude and painted blue. Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon's son Willem Gerard van Loon reversed the process by starting as a painter, ending as a dancer (TIME, July...
...learning French? Or are we learning a dead language based on an artificial, academic standard which may have been perfect from-in 1898. I grant the difficulty of employing as readers only men who speak and read contemporary Parisian French. But these gentlemen should take that fact into consideration; they should consider all possible interpretations and give the student the benefit of the doubt where a doubt exists; they should remember that while there are numerous cases on which all authorities would agree, there are half as many more on which no two agree--and concede the point; they should...
...play earned for its authors the election to the French Academy and ran for a successful period this fall at the Comedic Francaise in Paris. It deals with the Intrigues of Parisian society, and the reactions of a young woman to the deceptions of her Parisian husband. The most comical character is the Curate, lost in the meshes of this society where in he is constantly being shocked. The prices of admission are $3, $2, and $.75, with a reduction in prices for school children when in groups of more than five...