Word: rue
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealer, bald Edouard Jonas, Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France, Expert Conseil du Gouverne-ment, has had a brilliant career. An expert in the graceful decadence of the 18th Century, he owns a gallery on the smartest corner in Paris, Place Vendome & Rue Castiglione. He has been appointed director of the Government's new Cognacq-Jay Museum of 18th Century paintings and antiques.* He married the former wife of Cigar Store Tycoon David Schulte, and until six months ago he operated a large and very elaborate shop in New York...
Chicago is likely to deal more kindly with Patterns when it is played there this week. John Alden Carpenter is its foremost composer. Patterns, Chicago knows, was written immediately after the death of Composer Carpenter's wife Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, able interior decorator. His friends know, too, that hard times are making it necessary for Composer Carpenter to give more & more time to the business which his father left him to carry on down near the River...
...destruction of the Bastille commenced, so last week in all the little hotels of Montmartre the loose ladies of Paris celebrated the destruction of another prison almost as old: St. Lazare, handed over to the wreckers Aug. 9. For 141 years the vermin-ridden prison on the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis, built on the site of the still more ancient leprosery of St. Lazare, has held France's women prisoners, specially harlots. One of St. Lazare's first notable prisoners was Charlotte Corday, bath-stabber of Terrorist Marat. One of its more recent inmates was the equally...
...Coblenz as a money changer to confused U. S. soldiers in the Army of Occupation. Later he moved to Paris, opened a Travelers Bank a few doors from Morgan et Cie. By 1928 Banker Neidecker had bought a yacht, put his bank in larger quarters in the Rue de la Paix, where junketing U. S. citizens liked to watch quotations from the New York Stock exchange click up on his big board. For the investment business Banker Neidecker founded Neidecker et Cie. with branches at Geneva, Brussels, London, Buenos Aires. Manhattan correspondent for Travelers Bank is E. F. Hutton...
White Zombie (United Artists) is the latest jitter & gooseflesh cinema. Dracula was the first of the current witches' Sabbath of horror pictures (TIME, Feb. 23, 1931), followed by Frankenstein, Murders in the Rue Morgue and Freaks. All have been box office successes...