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...Swing," is to jazz what the poetic spirit is to poetry. Its exact definition, however, has given jazzmen many a troubled hour. Author Hugues Panassie of the classic Le Jazz Hot tentatively explains "swing" as "une sorte de balancement dans de rythme et la mélodic qui comporte toujours un grand dynamisme." To black Bandmaster Chick Webb of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, swing "is like lovin' a special girl, and you don't see her for a year, and then she comes back it's somethin' inside...
...enjoy detective stories in the style of Mr. Jacob Van Dine will find pleasure in "Une Etoile Disparait," presented by The French Talking Films Committee, Thursday and Friday at the Institute of Geographical Exploration. The story, written by Marcel Achard, is concerned with murder in a film studio. The victim is the jeune premiere, Liane, poisoned in a hasty drink before her theme song shot. Suspicion moves around the very mixed company, centering upon different members; there are false clues and bogus confessions in the best manner; and the murderer is finally revealed when the death film is reproduced...
Under the auspices of the French Talking Films Committee "Une Etoile Disparait," a modern mystery drama by Marcel Achard, flashes across the screen of the Institute of Geographical Exploration this afternoon and tomorrow...
...conference of all the nations of the world. . . . "Messieurs les délégués, c'est avec trés profonde émotion que je vois autour de moi cette auguste assemblée qui parait si vaste mais qui représente une conception infiniment plus vaste-d'espoir et les voeux du monde entier. . . . Messieurs les délégués, je vous tend la main et de tout man coeur j'espère que vos efforts aboutiront à un heureux résultat yu'attendent avec impatience...
...shrine at Lisieux, France, where Marie Francoise Thérèse Martin entered the Carmelite Convent at 15, many & many a pilgrim has journeyed. Fulfilled long ago by scores of miracles was the Little Flower's prediction that "Après ma mart je ferai tomber une pluie de roses" (After my death I will cause to fall a shower of roses). In gratitude, and for spiritual love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there was tangible result...