Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to French Custom the party leaders called, one by one, on President Gaston Doumergue, and "advised" him. Having barkened well, Bachelor Dou-mergue summoned Bachelor Briand and formally "charged" him to form a cabinet. A few moments later, as M. Briand left the Elysee, he said to correspondents: "In such difficult circumstances, I could not refuse the honor and charge...
Strauss: the Waltz King (German). A formless, well-acted, full-length silent biographical film tells how Johann Strauss became a composer in spite of his father's opposition. It is hard to believe that young Strauss's life was as fantastic as this but the important facts are authentic and the scenarist's guesses about the detail are as,; good as anyone's. You lose interest in Strauss but do not give him up for good until he is playing his own tunes at the wedding of his sweetheart to another fellow. Silliest sequence: Strauss jilting the pastry cook...
...Equity Warner Brothers contract, having flayed Equity in an inter- view, he and his employers were sued by Equity for $1,000,000 damages and an injunction to prevent his acting without Equity sanction (TIME, July 29). Last week he declared: "There are some who call me 'traitor. Well, if I'm a traitor, so was George Washington, who fought against taxation without representation. I will fight to the end against being forbidden to earn my living under a rule in the making of which I had no voice...
...with whose ideas about posing themselves he takes issue, should feel flattered rather than other- wise. They are "worth bothering about." Of necessity an ethnologist and character-reader of sorts, he says dark-haired people have more depth of character than light-haired and make better subjects psychologically as well as pictorially. Beauty attracts him less than "interesting" faces. Says...
...Spending less time with more women, he began an active public life. He wrote pamphlets and books on finance and history. One such opus, well-worded, eclectic, seditious, got him appointed "out of harm's way" as diplomat-at-large to the Court of Berlin where he nearly succeeded in embroiling Germany and France, at a time when there was "not a cent in the French treasury." France's poverty, he found, was due to the predatory habits of nobility and clergy. Against them he, a people's deputy in Paris, attempted to unite King and People. Of the despised...