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Word: rostand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sacha was frequently embarrassed by his father's fame. Besides such eminent figures as Sarah Bernhardt, Edmond Rostand, Henry Bernstein. Rejane, Anatole France, Eugene Brieux, Paul Bourget, he knew droll and pompous nobodies, devoted lovers of the theatre, all of whom impressed on him the constant fear that he might, from lack of talent, dishonor the name he bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guitry's Growing-Up | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Today he will held tryouts for the female parts at Radcliffe, with readings from O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes Electra," and Rostand's "Cyrane de Bergerac...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massey Selected to Direct Dramatic Club Production | 11/20/1934 | See Source »

...never pierced their thick grey crust," and Paul Vallery, the poet, Andre Gide with his reserved, cruelly analytical "Nouvelle Revue Francaise," and Raymond Radeguet sitting every evening at the Boeuf surle Toit and drinking with-out moving his "stubborn eyelids." There is chirico, the Surrealist, and Maurice Rostand, who lived with his mother in haughty, respectable rooms looking out on the Arc de Triomphe de 1'Etoile, Matisse, Madame Chanel, Modigliani, and James Joyce, and Jose Maria Sert, who is now decoration part of Radio City. There are almost too many of them; one gains no very precise picture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 4/11/1933 | See Source »

...French Drama: Dumas Fils and Rostand," Professor Murray, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/28/1933 | See Source »

...Columbus, Ohio. As mural painter he has just completed four large historical panels for the Bronx County Building showing the history of Mayor McKee's bailiwick from its foundation by Patroon Jonas Bronck. As a stage designer he made the maquettes for the U. S. production of Rostand's Chantecler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Roman | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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