Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Saint Bernard hospice, long the stalking ground of Upidee and other inlaid ghosts of romantic legend, is giving up its ancient and abivairous custom of giving free fool and stirred to every weary pilgrim. It is said that the threadbare monks are stirred by the affluent cars and apparel of their humble guests to set up a hotel under a skilled extartioner; and that voluntary contributions have not sufficed to maintain the momstery. But the often fleeced American traveler is likely to suspect that the monks have found that the "Dine and Dance" electric flasher attracts the crowds more...
Shaw at his best--and that is saying a good deal--was what the audience at the Tremont saw Monday night when "Saint Joan" opened its Boston run. The audience knew that it was Shaw at his best, for although Miss Arthur took most of the curtain calls, the applause was stimulated by the play itself, and the handclaps were meant for the other side of the Atlantic...
Other appointments made: M. de Fleuriau, Minister to Peking, to be Ambassador to Great Britain in place of Comte de Saint Aulaire; Senator Réné Besnard to be Ambassador to Italy, displacing M. Barriére, who for 27 years has represented France at Rome; M. Peretti della Rocca, Director of Political and Commercial Affairs at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Ambassador to Spain in room of M. de Fontenay; Comte Charles de Chambrun, Director of Press Service at the Quai d'Orsay, to be Minister at Athens; Deputy Jean Hennessy, ardent supporter of the League of Nations...
...priesthood for the stage. It is the shabby stage of Tip Thompson's variety show on the Texas border. In its centre is Marietta, gir! of his seminar}' village. She deserts his studious quietness for the more flagrant physical attractions of Dedaux, the Knife Thrower. "The Saint" has lost his girl and lost...
...Carillo impersonated "The Saint" with stretches of good acting and lapses that were not so good. The best performance was contributed by the old woman who trained pigeons-Maria Ouspenskaya, late of the Moscow Art group...