Word: savoir
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cercle Francais has announced the cast for its fall play, "La Grande Duchesse et le Garcon d'Etage," to be given at the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston, December 11 and 12. The play was written by Alfred Savoir, author of "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" and is coached by W. B. Cowen '29, professor of French at Milton Academy...
...Grande Duchesse et is Garcon," by Alfred Savoir, is the name of the play which will be given by the Harvard Cercle Francais at the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston this December, it was announced yesterday by S. W. Burchard '32, manager of the organization...
When a play has been publicly suppressed by Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain, it can still be privately performed before a "subscription audience." Last week such an audience of smart Londoners assembled unblushingly, rustling with anticipation, to see sardonic Alfred Savoir's suppressed drama The Lion Tamer or How the Englishman Was Eaten...
...visited the various headquarters were struck by the easy cheerfulness of Kansas City's representatives, in contrast to Detroit's anxious gogetters, Cleveland's cautious calculators, San Francisco's determined loudspeakers, Chicago's rooster-boosters. For a small city, Kansas City has extraordinary savoir-faire, and much more civility than many a larger place. Instead of permitting the G. O. P.'s reception to fall into the hands of local jobholders, a representative body of citizens got together last winter and made the plans. Flower-growing was encouraged this spring, to have the city...
...merely to sigh contemplatively, and cock one eye on the tablets in the locker house that once announced records as good as the best. Young blood, young vigor, seriousness in sports . . . all very well, for those who still play with the zest of youth; here at Harvard, a tired savoir faire is said to have taken their place. Harvard might, indeed, merely sigh, or even yawn, if this were true, but, sadly enough for the erudite gentlemen who delight in classifying the University and all its contents with one clever phrase, not all the instinct of curiosity is purged...