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Word: perroquet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founder of the Academy of Arts is a personable blonde of 23 with a questing nose and a passion for self improvement: Eleanor Verande. Her life has not been dull. At 15 she had a job in two of the swankest Paris night clubs, Le Perroquet and Florida, giving imitations of Spinelli. Yvonne Printemps and Mistinguette, in French. At 16 she was Premiere Danseuse of the Lyon opera and at the season's end was dragged through the streets of Edouard Herriot's home town by 20 hysterical Frenchmen, dressed as U. S. sailors and shouting "Vive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Barter Academy | 4/17/1933 | See Source »

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