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...timid stupidity when they do. In Red Salute, Producer Edward Small was patently under the impression that, by making the villain of the piece a campus radical, he was hurling an intellectual bombshell of some sort at the U. S. cinema public. The picture's release at the Rivoli Theatre in Manhattan last week actually caused a disturbance at which 18 adolescents were arrested for wagging idiotic handbills...
Paris put on an even greater demonstration for the fugitive King. Smiling wanly, he pushed his way through the crowd, drove to the swanky Hotel Meurice on the Rue de Rivoli where he had reserved an entire floor for his family and his followers at $600 per day. After Paris police warned that they could not protect him adequately in the city, the King moved with his entourage to Fontainebleau, 15 mi. distance, took quarters in the Hotel Savoy. Soon the $20,000 which he had brought with him was nearly exhausted by loans to his companions who, in their...
Later King Alfonso went to Paris and stayed incognito at a hotel in the Rue de Rivoli-not at the Ritz as is Queen Victoria Eugénie's wont. His Majesty heard of another disaster on the outskirts of Melillo, in Spanish Morocco, where 57 persons were reported killed last week and some 200 injured, when a Spanish arsenal exploded. For the killed or injured Moroccans, however, the King of Spain was not reported to have shed tears...
...Buildings Commission. Said he: "An office building for our Embassy and Consulate will be erected. . . . Such a building as the Administration now has in mind would correspond with the architecture of the Hotel Florentin, the present residence of Baron Edouard de Rothschild, at the corner of the Rue de Rivoli and the Rue St. Florentin, and would balance the two larger structures of the Ministry of Marine and the Hotel Crillon, in accordance with the original plan of Jacques Gabriel...
...piping from its drowsy Valerian hillock Mr. Sullivan added a knowing and a star-spanGled obbligato. He was, in fact, closer to what was happening upon the shifty Quai D'Orsay than were several of the involved prime ministers. We met him one afternoon in the Rue de Rivoli, walking with Baron Sonnino and Wellington Koo. Arthur Krock, of The Louisville Times, was with us and he paused to speak to Mr. Sullivan and the others. ' Have you seen Lansing today?' asked Mr. Krock casually. ' Yes,' answered Mr. Sullivan. 'Well,' Mr. Krock inquired...