Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doucet the accompaniments. As was the case with Maier & Pattison, the two men have little in common. Wiener is Parisian to the finger tips, loves any city. Doucet spends his spare time on his farm near Bordeaux where he makes wine, raises cows and pigs. Since their arrival in the U. S. Wiener has been able to stomach only the finer kinds of U. S. cooking, such as chicken a la king. Doucet proudly eats griddle cakes & maple syrup, pork & beans...
...prologue in a Parisian cafe fails somehow to impress one with the ability of either actors or author; Miss Rachel Crothers does not show her hand until the second act. There have been innumerable drunk scenes paraded before the long-suffering theatre-goer, but their authors have rarely succeeded in the measure with which Miss Crothers does in this particular bit. Geoffrey Wardwell and Jay Fassett contribute remarkable performances as their share in this scene, and the author supplied them with excellent material, studded with laugh producing lines...
...year ago, before the German and British crises, Pierre Laval, Senator and Mayor of the Parisian suburb of Aubervilliers, was as little known as Calvin Coolidge before the Boston police strike. Foreign correspondents called him ''the man with the white necktie" for, following the international tradition that politicians must have some idiosyncrasy of dress, he always wears a washable white cravat...
Marie was a Parisian maid-of-all-work but a country girl at heart. She worked for the Deloses, an avaricious jeweler and his discontented wife, was in love with Babylas, a mulatto chauffeur. Babylas' motives were neither pure nor unmixed: he took Marie for lack of something better, and hoped through her to get at her master's jewels. When Babylas told Marie his scheme she was horrified, carried her fear so openly on her face that M. Delos took it for an invitation and complacently accepted it. Marie, servant and a yes-girl, wrung her hands and said...
Lead team of The Band Wagon is, of course, the Astaires. Never has this versatile pair been set to better advantage. As two incorrigible Parisian children playing hoops in the Pare Monceau (perhaps the loveliest of Albert R. Johnson's settings) it is evident that the Astaires have come a long way since leaving their native Omaha. Neb. Future revues will have a hard time equalling The Band Wagon's beauty, charm, imagination...