Word: fall
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Chamber of Deputies to its parliamentary commission investigating the famous Oustric Scandal. Observers realized that until former Prime Minister Andre Tardieu was completely whitewashed of any complicity in the swindles of Banker Albert Oustric it would be impossible for him to succeed to the prime ministry on the fall of the Steeg cabinet, a move which many French newspapers continued to urge last week. Nervy, plump-cheeked Albert Oustric started his career before the War as plain "Albert," a white-aproned waiter in a Toulouse cafe. A little influence kept him out of the trenches, got him a berth...
Most important head to fall was that of lantern-jawed, saturnine Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, President of the Union Council of People's Commissars, or Prime Minister of the Soviet Union. Month after month Rykov's removal has been rumored, because of his alleged "Right'' tendencies. Always he has managed to hang on, because of his extreme popularity with Moscow crowds. He was ousted last week, not only from the presidency of the Union Council and of the Council of Labor & Defense, but also from his membership in the powerful Political Bureau of the Party. Succeeding...
...song - now obsolete in Hollywood - is heartily employed, but "Sous les Toits de Paris" is a pretty song, gay and nostalgic ; it ought to be popular if native orchestras bother to work out a dance arrangement for it. The plot concerns a street-singer and a street-hawker who fall in love with the prettiest girl in their neighborhood. One of them wins her in spite of complications caused by a bully-boy who gets possession of a key to her apartment. The cast is not famous (Albert Frejean, Edmond Greville, Pola Illery), but they act so well that spectators...
...covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method of having Mr. Logan fall off a building and lapse into a coma. Best feature of the futuristic sequences is a ballet mecanique, led by blond and birdlike Mr. Dunham. Premiere of The Tiger Smiles was held in Princeton at the handsome new McCarter Theatre. Not since the old casino burned has Princeton...
...Fall River, Mass...