Word: polyglot
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Superbly acted, with English titles to translate its polyglot dialogue, Grand Illusion's principal defect is that an occasional exaggerated attention to detail tends to retard its pace. It is notable for restoring Erich von Stroheim (a top-priced director until a combination of extravagant pictures and his own erratic temperament cut short his Hollywood career) to the screen in a more sympathetic role than those he used to play. Good shot: the moment at the dress rehearsal of a prison show when the first member of the cast tries on a woman's dress...
...London's brummagem, polyglot Soho quarter last week, the end of the Octave of Epiphany-brought the end of a series of services at old St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, which had successively been conducted in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Latin, Gaelic, Polish, French, English, Spanish, Russian. In the last tongue, no sermon had been preached before in a Catholic church in England. Preacher was Father Bourgeois, crack French Jesuit whose order has transferred him from the Church's Latin rite to its Russian rite, as key man in a new campaign to convert...
...wineries are Italian Swiss Colony with a storage capacity of about 13,000,000 gallons, Fruit Industries Ltd., a growers' co-operative with a storage capacity of 19,500,000 gallons, and Roma Wine Co., Inc. which is now expanding to 20,000,000 gallons. Last week his polyglot members had something to rejoice in together. They had just completed this year's crushing of grapes, 700,000 tons of them-out of the greatest grape crop in California's history, 2,409,000 tons, including raisin and table grapes-and the Wine Institute had just reported...
...Polyglot Party...
...picture of General Semenov in TIME for Aug. 23 recalled vividly an encounter with the General in March 1918. A refugee train was on its way from Petrograd to Harbin carrying a polyglot group of diplomatic officials, business men and bankers. On board were the staff of the American embassy in Russia, headed by First Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank...