Word: sacha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 as "La Sauvage Tendre," she was mobbed by a crowd at a personal appearance in Brussels, tested by Twentieth Century-Fox, signed by Zanuck. Smart, she learned English by reading fairy stories, listening to the radio, memorizing 25 words...
Specifically the great aircraft engine makers, Hispano-Suiza, sent famed Sacha Guitry's good friend, Mlle Claude May, to win a Grand Prix d'Honneur in starched organdie with peplum jacket and one of their dazzling cars. More conservative, the Delage Company sent Mme Paul Cartier, daughter of a onetime Imperial Russian oil tycoon and wife of a small Geneva banker, to be "crowned" La Laur...
...Pasteur", written, directed, and acted by Sacha Guitry, will be presented by the French Talking Films Committee on Wednesday and Friday of this week at the Institute of Geological Exploration...
...quick-witted Latins they took exactly ten and a half hours to decide the 1,956 issues raised by the case. Through a galaxy of Paris' highest paid and most dexterously emotional lawyers, all 20 defendants offered substantially the same defense: "misplaced confidence." They knew that the late Sacha Stavisky. alias Serge Alexandre, hobnobbed with Cabinet Ministers. They knew that a Rothschild had sold to Sacha horses which raced at Long-champ carrying his silks, while Sacha watched "from the box of the President of the Republic." They had heard of Sacha's obtaining for an Anglophile member...
...this, the defendants submitted, inspired them with "confidence" in Sacha Stavisky, alias Serge Alexandre. If he now & then asked some of the defendants to perform individual crooked acts, and if some of the defendants even admitted performing these, that did not alter the submission of all the defendants that as individuals they had had no knowledge of the vast ramifications of Swindler Stavisky's crockeries but had considered him a man of substance. Stavisky was, they submitted, a "Financial Napoleon," the magnitude of whose coups and victories on the Bourse erased his peccadillos from the minds of Cabinet Ministers...