Word: soir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glory or Money? Then the Pierre Laza reffs' Elle (circ. 700,000), the country's biggest women's weekly, sent a reporter and photographer on the story. What they found made headlines not only for Elle, but also for the Lazareffs' daily France Soir (circ...
Veteran of four childless marriages, Cinemale Clark (Mogambo) Gable, 54, surprised his recent bride (TIME, July 25), sometime Cinemactress Kay Williams Gable, 37, by lighting up a cigar at a Hollywood soirée and declaiming on the glorious institution of fatherhood. Forgiving Gable for his inability to keep their secret (ETA: next May), Kay chirped: "He certainly went all ham then . . . Besides, he's started to pamper me, and I've never been pampered in my whole life." (Kay once charged that her former husband, the bibulous sugar heir, "Daddy" Adolph B. Spreckels II, beat her with...
...Sica. Across the street, the Strega's tables swarm with so many starlets and bit players that harried directors have been known to hustle over and do some fast casting on the spot. Most international is the Caffè; Doney, where newsboys hawk the London Daily Telegraph, France-Soir and Variety, and waiters accept orders for milkshakes or ham-and-eggs without batting an eye. Patrons include Egypt's ex-King Farouk, Hollywood's ex-Star Bruce Cabot (now a fixture of Rome's colony of movie expatriates), visiting U.S. executives, Turkish businessmen, passing luminaries...
...most astounding night of my ministry," he said, mopping his brow. "I saw more sincerity in the eyes of those who came forward tonight than I have ever seen before." Leaky Roof. Most French newspapers praised Billy's sincerity but were unwilling to take him seriously. France-Soir termed him "Heaven's publicity man," roguishly claimed that the audience had "understood neither his sermon in English nor the translation . . . The messenger of Christ . . . has given himself five days to convert Paris. He has four left to fix his microphones." Paris Presse said Billy was "as well organized...
Love's vagaries are an old story, but in Les Visiteurs du Soir they receive a pleasant and original enough treatment to justify spending a rather slow couple of hours watching them unfold. At a clean, white castle in 15th-century France, two of the devil's envoys arrive as minstrels, and the ensuing events develop this theme in a quaint and comprehensive format...