Word: richelieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richelieu's Condition. "Italians love a display of emotion to an extent the English would regard as disgusting," continues Dr. Finer. "Hence the task of government has been, is, and always will be different in Italy from in England. . . . In the apt American phrase, Mussolini is a spellbinder. . . . Yet Mussolini is more controlled, more disposed to reticence, less expansive than the average Italian. He is imperious and detached. . . . He has a solid, crag-like passivity when listening, and even when speaking, that is particularly imposing in a land where all are volatile and throbbing. He gives the impression that...
...where Kent will remain as president. Twentieth Century will move from the United Artists lot at Hollywood to the enormous Fox studio at Fox Hills. Twentieth Century's Darryl Zanuck, who has proved his lively and eccentric skill as a producer by such films as Les Miserables, Cardinal Richelieu, Clive of India, The Affairs of Cellini, The House of Rothschild, will become a Fox vice president. The combined companies will together produce a minimum of 55 pictures a year, of which Twentieth Century, as an independent unit, will make at least a dozen. Significance of the move is that...
...failed. Next revisionists were Philip Dunning (Broadway) and Harold Johnsrud, whose version opened in Pittsburgh in November 1933 with oldtime Cinemactress Pola Negri as star. The show failed. Next year it was scheduled for another tryout in Boston. It did not come off until the Shuberts got Arthur Goodrich (Richelieu) to do a third adaptation and hired a sad little red-headed woman named Greta Maren for the chief role. Up in Manhattan last week went another chorus of critical boos...
...latest works (see p. 53), Producer Darryl Zanuck last week told the Press: "The most notable trend in picture-making has been that resulting from the public's cry for cleaner pictures. Efforts of the producers to meet this demand have made possible . . . Copperfield, Miserables, Bengal Lancer, Richelieu. ..." Fortunately for himself and Les Miserables, Producer Zanuck was entirely wrong. Les Miserables starts in the slums, proceeds to a Toulon prison galley and reaches its climax in a Paris sewer. It is the result not of the Legion of Decency but of Victor Hugo's feelings about...
...member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...