Word: ren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director RenéClair won his first fame with a simple love story. Sous Les Toits de Paris, his second fame and third with brilliant satiric farragos, Le Million and A Nous La Liberté. July 14 is a simple love story of a blonde flower-seller (Annabella) and a taxi-driver (Georges Rigaud). Across the street in the shadow of Montmartre they fall in love on July 13th. They talk in the street, that night go to the street ball after she has lost her job in a cabaret for slapping an old drunkard (Paul Olivier). That night...
...René Clair's stable of actors, designers and technical men, Annabella is the only rebel. On the lot she refuses to work overtime, drives a hard bargain, insists on having her own way. She is the daughter (real name, Suzanne) of Paul Charpentier, editor of the Journal dee Voyage. French director Abel Gance first spotted her and called her Annabella because, in common with most literate Frenchmen, he admires "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed...
...abroad every summer to cover tournaments for the New York Evening Post said before the matches started that playing in Australia last winter had been bad for Vines, without explaining why it had not hurt Australia's Jack Crawford who beat Vines in the Wimbledon final. Said shrewd René Lacoste: "Certainly Vines could have been better but account must be taken of the way Austin maneuvered him around the court...
...exhibition of sculpture, the first outdoor display ever held in Boston, is now in progress in the courtyard of the Germanic Museum. The exhibition is devoted to Greater Boston artists and their work and is especially interesting in that the work of three Harvard ren, J. A. Coletti, Richardson White, and Frank Wigglesworth is on display. Coletti gained much of his ability while a student at Harvard, and later taught White and Wigglesworth...
...called for Al Smith for Mayor. For President of the Board of Aldermen he named Socialist Norman Thomas. For New York District Attorney he proposed Frederic René ("Fritz") Coudert Jr., smooth young Republican from the silk-stocking district. He resurrected onetime Mayor John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan for Borough President of Queens and balanced him with Louis Waldman, New York State Socialist chairman, for Borough President of The Bronx. Mayor O'Brien was tactfully reserved his old job as Surrogate...