Word: victorien
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...everything he can find, from cookbooks to soap wrappers. In the first hour of My Father's Glory -- the most luminous part of either film, or of any film since charm went out of fashion -- Joseph anxiously faces a new teaching job, Augustine gives birth to a second son (Victorien Delmare), and Marcel's maiden aunt (Therese Liotard) meets her future husband (Didier Pain) while walking Marcel in the park. For this middle-aged couple, love is a waltz in a summer shower. Her umbrella catches glints of a rainbow...
Diplomacy. Hitching a galaxy of stars to this antiquated vehicle by Victorien Sardou, George Crouse Tyler surprised Manhattan playgoers by the excellence of his judgment. The play, as translated by Sir Gerald du Maurier, seemed nearly as neat and sparkling as it did on the evening of Queen Victoria's "command performance," nearly half a century ago. Surely it was well played. William Faversham, 60, perhaps stung to effort by the recent and successful theatrical activities of his eldest son William Faversham Jr., gave an impeccable performance as Henry Beauclerc, the suave ambassador who, by sniffing the scent...
...wearing a cigaret or a dress suit brought him almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French officer as yawningly as a dull waiter ties a greasy apron around his belly. Mr. Menjou as Captain Ferreol is confronted with a tough problem: he must either reveal his onetime relations with a lady whom he had loved illicitly...
...Authors Oliver Wendell Holmes, Eugene Sue, Victorien Sardou, Tobias Smollett, Dr. David Ramsay, were first doctors ; and Dr. Benjamin Rush was a signer of the Declaration of Independence...
Madame Sans Gene (pronounced san-Géne) was a play written in 1893 by Victorien Sardou, based on a well-known story of the Napoleonic period about Sergeant Pierre null Joseph Lefebvre (later made general, marshal. Duke of Danzig) who married a blan-chisseuse (washerwoman) to the French guards. She, Catharine Hubscher, never varnishing over her early manners, acquired the nickname Madame Sans Géne, rather freely translated as Mrs. Uncouth...