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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual for a Cabinet to "fall," overthrown by an adverse vote, but it can also "jump"-that is, simply resign. This rare but not unprecedented maneuver Premier Camille Chautemps executed in Paris last week, taking full advantage of his great personal triumph in having just put through both Chamber and Senate by huge majorities his Modern Labor Charter (TIME, March...
...attempts to understand eternal secrets. The skillful direction of Edmond Greville and a finished performance by the veteran Albert Prejean put this across. M. Benoit, at the cameras, deserves great credit, as much for shots of delicate irony as for scencs of beauty and simplicity. English subtitles make this rare film available to everyone...
...culturally self-sufficient are the French that important exhibitions of foreign art are rare in Paris. Rare in particular are shows of English art, toward which Parisians have a traditional, polite contempt. But by an interesting coincidence, the proposed visit of the King & Queen of England to Paris this June is being preceded by two unusually large and official shows of English painting. Last month Parisians fought a preliminary bout with their insularity at an exhibition of Caricatures et Mœurs Anglaises, 1750-1850 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. And last week...
...enthusiasm for Chaucer and Conan Doyle to accounts of his lecture tours; another column called Trade Winds, marked by the same weary whimsicality, in which a character called old Quercus, or young Quercus, or just young Q, commented on everything from misprints in best-sellers to catalogues of rare-book sales...
...phenomena of the present era, Miss Fisher has made an important contribution to the lore of horticulture. It is no easy thing to stage a flower show; you have to have flowers. This fact has been ably set forth in a manual indispensable to the amateur gardener. Displaying a rare gifts for clear exposition, and never afraid to call a spade a spade. Miss Fisher has given us of her best...