Word: paule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the defeated candidate sought revenge, demanded that the Chamber of Deputies lift Parliamentary immunity from incorrigible Senator Maurice, so that he, Paul Hoeffler, could bring suit for gross libel and defamation of character. Sure of spicy details to come, Senators and Deputies angled eagerly for seats on the committee appointed to investigate the charges...
...success. The major significance of the theatre is that it proves, like a corollary to the Theatre Guild, that fine dramatic art treated studiously, "artistically," is appreciated in Manhattan.? And though Miss Le Gallienne's chief associates?Jacob Ben-Ami, Josephine Hutchinson, Leona Roberts, Egon Brecher and Paul Leyssac?would merit headlines anywhere, major credit for a serious venture which is one of Manhattan's greatest civic virtues, which has won all but the crustiest critics, must inevitably be Eva Le Gallienne's. At 30 she has become a prominent citizen...
Seven Faces (Fox). As a short story Richard Connell's "A Friend of Napoleon" was awarded several prizes by juries who admired its light irony and neat construction. As a talking picture the pointed anecdote has been turned into a pointless but mechanically interesting vaudeville act for Paul Muni. He plays with gusto many parts?Napoleon, Joe Cans, Franz Schubert, Don Juan, Diablero?all waxworks in the gallery presided over by old Papa Chibou, also played by Muni. Brilliant as this charading is, it hurts the picture. You are too preoccupied with physical aspects of Muni as Chibou leaning...
...Paul Muni grew up traveling with the stock-companies in which his father and mother had parts. When he was 11, they needed someone to play an old man. The thin boy with his piping voice made up well in the part. When he was a little older he worked in art theatres. Sam Harris put him on contract. He made hits in such plays as We Americans and Four Walls. He was pleased with Seven Faces because it gave him a chance to exercise his hobby?facial makeup. He likes fights, football games, concerts, is bored by tennis...
...week they smote a new chord on their lyres, began a new canto of the railroad epic. They turned to the West and the great Western railroads. In San Francisco last week sat Charles D. Mahaffie, Interstate Commerce Commissioner. Before him came Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern, Paul Shoup, President of the Southern Pacific, Arthur Curtiss James, Western Pacific Board Chairman, Harry M. Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building of 200 miles of railroad tracks...