Word: renee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Molokai eight years ago went Father d'Orgueval, 53, descendant of an aristocratic French family, scholar and orator, friend of the late Novelist Rene Bazin. A Wartime chaplain, much-decorated, he lost his voice from gassing, volunteered thereupon to work at Molokai for the Congregation of Picpus* which has charge of it. Within the past year Father d'Orgueval has been visited by Father Joseph A. Sweeney of the Maryknoll Fathers in Ossining, N. Y. Last week it was learned, by letter from Maryknoll Sisters in Honolulu, that Father d'Orgueval, too, may now begin his sermons...
...Adventure tells of a flight across the Sahara, from Paris to Timbuctoo and back. Seabrook wanted to go to Timbuctoo to see Pére Yakouba. famed renegade French priest (their first meeting is described in Jungle Ways). Flight Captain Rene Wauthier of the French Army, then on furlough, offered to fly him there in his plane. Third member of the party was Marjorie Worthington, U. S. writer. In luxurious comfort they slid down across France, bumped over the Pyrenees, skimmed the Mediterranean. North Africa looked much like southern France. Then the Sahara began. Crossing the Sahara nowadays...
...cast for the play, which has been chosen but for the part of Mrs. Vulpy: Rene O. Z. Whitehead '34 Sparrowly R. F. Alsop '36 Trevor Robert Breckinridge '34 William H. O. Tudor '35 Ludovic H. D. Patterson '34 Colonel Mutsome W. S. Burrage '33 John R. J. Bry '35 Claire Elizabeth Morison Agatha Jeanne McMillan Hortensia Agnes Love Sybil Betty Love
...Coiffeur pour Dames" has all the exaggeration and imagination of a Rene Claire piece, but none of the finesse. The situation is not preposterous enough to suit our spoiled taste in French pictures, but the lines (we are told) are hilariously funny. The brief travelogue preceding the feature dealt with Chartres, Laon, and Rheims in an unsatisfactory Fogg Museum way--old stuff none too well presented. The Harvard wives (who comprised a majority of the audience) had a very pleasant afternoon...
...Rene Peroy, fencing coach, announced yesterday that he had chosen the members of his Freshman team. They will be as follows: in the foils, P. E. Lilienthal, P. H. Sturtevant, and J. C. McNamara; in the epee, Richard Ford and S. J. Freedberg; in the sabre, Richard Morgan and Morton Grant. A. P. Vitali has been chosen alternate foilsman...