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Generously the great Actor-Manager Sacha Guitry provided for his choosey feminine patrons two Lindberghs-Voila! Also he entitled his piece Charles Lindbergh-A Heroic Melodrama. Finally, with the cunning of a master dramatist, he supplied love interest-without offending that large section of French womanhood to whom Le Colonel is attractive chiefly as a symbol of masculine chastity...
...tapped her on the shoulder. "Be careful, my old one! Not so near the edge. One slip and- plumps-you would be in, hein?" Mme. Cuvelier turned on him the point of a yellow tooth. "Holy pig!" she replied, "I could swim ten miles before your mother was weaned. Voila-your hand, take it away. . . ." She plunged into the pool. The crowd cheered. Later in the day the women started a distance race. Mme. Desprez won it, swam for more than an hour, showed no sign of fatigue. Asked for a speech, she told the wondering throng that...
...morning hour last week, a crowd collected on the left bank of the Seine, scurried along the Quai d'Orsay, hung about the Ministere des Affairs fitrangeres or French Foreign Office. Up the steps was walking the Marquess of Crewe, British Ambassador to France. "Le voila," cried a voice, choking down a morsel of the yard of bread which he carried under his arm. "C'est le rol George." "Non, non," re- sponded another, "c'est I'ambassadeur britannique." "Je vous dis. ..." The honking of an automobile horn interrupted the incipient altercation...
...Cooper and I had both been engaged to play the part of the Madonna in the coming production by Morris Gest and Max Reinhardt of The Miracle. Said I in a press interview: 'I am engaged to play the role of the Madonna, and I shall play it. Voila tout! I shall certainly not play on alternate nights with Lady Diana, and when the curtain rings up on the first night I shall be on the stage. If Mr. Gest insists that Lady Diana play, I shall sue him for $100,000. I have already spoken to my attorney...
...luxuries provided by the Union. As good as its word the "Tribune" traces the source of the evil from the tinkling tea-cups to 10 Garden street, which, as we all know is only "two blocks from the heart of the campus"; and there the trail ends. Voila les Femmes...