Word: tableau
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...made twice, once in English, once in French. The French version of each scene was made immediately after the English one, on the same set. Maurice Chevalier is the only performer who appears in both versions. The French one, in which the leading lady is Princess Paley, includes a tableau of nude models, jokes which would alarm the Legion of Decency...
...Nonetheless, its most engaging moments occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie as his stock-in-trade. A brisk light-hearted and enormously romantic tableau, The Scarlet Pimpernel should sprout immediately on lists of worthy cinemas compiled out of respect for decency or for plain good taste. Good shot: Sir Percy ingratiating himself with a sentry at the gates of Paris by showing him a switch made of dead patricians' pigtails...
...Christ's Mother, the Servites were established in the U. S. in 1870. Ten years ago in Portland the local fathers set about building a sacred grotto and grove to their patroness. Selecting a site atop a sheet cliff outside the city, they filled it with statuary, including colored tableau groups representing Mary's Seven Sorrows.* They ran an elevator 150 ft. up the cliff so that tourists might pay to view the landscape and an 8½-ft. bronze statue of the Virgin. The whole thing the Servites called the Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother...
...emotional impetus given the Democratic Party in the bloodless revolution of 1932 certainly appeared to have spent itself in Pennsylvania. "It is time," observed the New York Times, "for the two-party system to reassert itself . . . and nobody can know better than Mr. Roosevelt that the stand-together-brothers tableau is about over...
...tableau was not marred by the first results of a Literary Digest poll asking 15,000,000 1932 voters: "Do you approve on the whole the acts and policies of Roosevelt's first year?" Sixty-six percent of the 45,000 balloters (from New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania) said Yes, whereas only 57% of the total Digest's straw voters had favored Roosevelt in the 1932 poll. Forty-one percent of the Digest balloters who had chosen Hoover two years ago now favored the President's policies...