Word: renee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although there are only three letter men returning this year to form a nucleus, Coach Rene Peroy hopes that by getting a quick start this fall, he will be able to develop some material, experienced or inexperienced, by the time of the first match of the season which is scheduled to begin in February...
After their big monoplane Trait d'Union ("Hyphen") crashed in the forests of Si- beria two months ago (TIME, July 27), Pilots Joseph Marie Lebrix and Marcel Doret, with Mechanic Rene Mesmin, dragged themselves back to Paris. Their escape from death had been almost a miracle. Nevertheless they prevailed upon their backer, Perfumer Francois Coty, to give them another plane just like the wrecked one for a second try at a Paris-Tokyo nonstop flight. Such a flight, 6,032-mi., would retrieve for France the distance record which Boardman & Polando had just wrested away by flying...
Died. Dr. Rene Jacquemaire Clemenceau,35,grandson of the late great Georges, Wartime premier of France; from an infection incurred while attending a patient; in Paris. For being "a victim of science" he received the Cross of the Legion of Honor on his deathbed...
...medium, made their characters participate in comic pursuits, prolonged and exaggerated through a series of wild mishaps. The cinema has since mastered other and more subtle methods of achieving funny effects and a Hollywood director might have thought twice before resorting to the simple old pursuit device as Director Rene Clair (Sous Les Toits de Paris) does in Le Million. As in comic opera, with swift pictorial action and amusing musical interludes, Le Million depicts its hero's vicissitudes. The hero wins a fortune in a lottery but he has left the lottery ticket in the pocket...
...Director Clair has made Le Million easily intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts-by revealing developments in the coat-chase through the conversation of two sleepy Englishmen who inspect the excitement from the roof of the hero's studio. Notable in a cast of brilliant French character actors is Rene Lefebvre...