Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1910s, this picture features Maurice Ravel's famed composition (written in 1928), calls a cabaret a night club, omits the maxixes and bunny-hugs of the period in favor of jazz steps and a fan dance by Sally Rand. A Belgian-born coal miner named Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity stunt. When Raoul returns with...
...life of a Pennsylvania of Belgian extraction with a desire to excel in the art of dancing is portrayed in "Bolero." Raoul's existence depended entirely on his ambition, and he was so eager to reach the top that he fired his partners without feeling, and he deserted his night-club in Paris to enlist in the Belgian army in the World War as a publicity stunt. When the war was over, Raoul tried to start again, but his lungs were weak, and his partner was drunk on the opening night. Helen, a former partner of his who had left...
There is great good humor and nonchalance in the way Raoul Walsh directed The Bowery. It is a gay cartoon of a place and a period, as flagrant as a copy of the Police Gazette and as forthright as a set of brass knuckles. Good shot: a terrific fight with ashcans, fists, brickbats, blackjacks, between Chuck Connors' fire company and Steve Brodie's, while the hopeless Chinese in a burning tenement squeal for help...
First air-wedding to be recorded, few years later, was that of a young Belgian aeronaut, Georges Raoul Thiel, and Madeleine Bailly. Their balloon, a primitive affair composed of gasbag and plain square basket, was named Lime de Miel ("Honeymoon"). The Thiels were married by the Brussels burgomeister in the public square, then cast off in the Lime de Miel to sail over the countryside, landing prettily in a cow pasture a few miles away...
...several years Dr. Snyder has toyed with the idea of a complete flying wing, experimenting with models affixed to the front or top of his automobile. A high-school teacher of mechanics helped him build a wind tunnel, and last year he picked up Raoul Joseph Hoffman, an Austrian engineer who came through South Bend peddling slide rules. Together they built the ARUP which is simply a parabolic wing of 19-ft. span with fuselage & engine inserted in the middle. Dr. Snyder claims for his ARUP higher speed, slower landing, greater lift, greater safety than those of a conventional airplane...