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...admission charge of six francs (25?). Smart U. S. citizens just landed from the French Line's Normandie, jampacked last week the Exposition's small, select Restaurant La Normandie. whose manager is the ship's Associate Purser John Henry. Smartest large restaurant is Le Roi George with two orchestras and Maitre d'Hotel Albert of Maxim's. Swankly atop the Pavilion d'Elegance perches the Ritz-Hotel-managed Club des Oiseaux (Birds' Club...
...portrait of Philippe Le Roi, by Van Dyke, is reputed to be one of the best of his portrait prints. This portrait, as it appears in the collection, includes only the head of the subject. Several years later the Dutch master completed the figure, but none of the resulting prints turned out as well as the ones of the head alone. The paper has been very skillfully mended, where it was torn completely across the sheet, by some unknown artisan...
...well-worn course into musical comedy bits. One day W. Tourjansky, free-lance director, saw her in a street cafe, addressed a soft remark to her. She slapped his face. Impressed, he tested her, cast her as Pierrette in Chanteur Inconnu opposite Opera Singer Lucien Muratore. She made Le Roi des Palaces for Adolphe Osso and La Petite Chocolatière for Marc Allegret, both comedy roles, got her first serious casting as elflike Puck in Lac aux Dames. Arthur Willnetz, a man ager, introduced her to Sacha Guitry, who gave her a part in O Mon Bel Inconnu. Publicized...
Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser"Wagner Overture, "Le Roi I'a dit" Delibes *Minuet from String Quintet Boccherini *Fantasia, "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Suite, "The Two Pigeons" (after La Fontaine) Messager Entrance of the Gypsies--Scene and Dance of the Two Pigeous-Divertissement ungarian Dance *Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmi *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin *Selection, "Mile, Modiate" Herbert *"Danube Waves," Waltzes Ivanoviel *"We Saw the Sea," from "Follow the Fleet" Berlin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...George's recall, both the King and Venizelos had discovered that Fascist-minded General George Kondylis was far more dangerous to them both than either of them was to the other. King George personally granted Venizelos amnesty and Venizelos wrote, "I say from my heart, 'Vive le Roi!'" Nevertheless he prudently stayed on in Paris...