Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winterhalter started long at the graceful bevy of women, and then reluctantly turned back to the canvas before him. Haussman cut great swaths through the Hutter of Parisian slums. A man called Offenbach sat back in his box watching he world dance to his thinking melolics. Some where off in a back room a cynic with a long nose was muttering, We dance, but we dance upon a volcano. In such fashion did the Second Empire sweep through...
Died, Louis Loucheur, 59, French industrialist, member of the Chamber of Deputies, owner of Le Petit Journal (Parisian daily); of heart disease; in Paris. Son of a railway crossing-keeper, he became a successful engineer and contractor, was employed at 23 by the Chemin de Fer du Nord to enlarge its trackage. With Alexandre Girod as partner he built an electric power station at Wagenthal near industrious Lille. Engineer Loucheur headed the Society of Electric Power of Paris, electrified the French, Italian, Russian and Turkish railways, built power plants and a railway in the Alps. At the outbreak...
Professor Sigerist is a Parisian by birth and received his preliminary education in Paris and Zurich. He studied Medicine and Philology at the universities of London, Munich and Zurich, receiving his medical degree at the latter institution. He was a professor at the University of Leipzig until 1925, and Director of the Institute of the History of Medicine...
...plot is in the same pattern as Madame X and Madelon Claudet. Prom- ising an estranged husband (Geoffrey Kerr) to support a fortuitous rumor that she is dead. Miss Chatterton disappears into the Parisian demimonde. Years later she threatens to reveal that she is still alive and resentful when he refuses to let their grown-up daughter marry. Cinemas in which the climax arrives only with the maturity of the heroine's offspring are likely to be long drawn out. This one, though Ruth Chatterton acts well and ably affects a Russian accent, seems as long as two ordinary cinemas...
...story contains much familiar pathos. It is about a French peasant girl who devotes her life to supporting an illegitimate son. First she takes up with a successful Parisian thief (Lewis Stone). When the thief is arrested, she is sent to jail as his accomplice. She leaves her son to be reared in a state institution and when she gets out, earns the money for his further education by harlotry. By the time she is ready to apply for lodging in the poorhouse, he is a successful young physician. Climax: she goes to his house to have a last look...