Word: fran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Electricians who come clumping in to install the device bring a loud speaker and two pairs of headphones. Thereafter the subscriber may listen, every night and two afternoons a week, to whatever may be sung at the Opera, or played in such famed theatres as the Odeon or Comedie Française. Already half a dozen hit-show theatres supplement this list; and Le Théatrophone seems to have definitely caught on. One typically French restriction is imposed. The subscriber may not switch from one performance to another while the first performance continues. Having chosen his play, he must...
...country priests of not less than half a billion francs ($19,500,000). This stupendous swindle was carried on from Paris through branch offices in almost every provincial city and town of consequence in France. During the past year fictional corporations with such vague names as L'Union Française d'Emission and La Société Syndicate Fonciére were organized and floated at the rate of slightly less than one a day. When the crash came some 400 employes of Swindleress Hanau organized themselves into the "Society for the Defense of Honor," protesting...
People who like to sniff the famed perfumes of FrançoisCoty will be glad to know that the paper of which he makes a hobby, L'Ami du Peuple, exposed the diabolic "Great Catherine." She had incautiously attacked in La, Gazette certain political schemes of Scent Tycoon Coty, and he fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick...
...Barry, mistress of France's King Louis XV, had several beds. The most famed is to be put on the auction block, along with other antiques, in Paris, on Dec. 6, by the present owner, Comtesse de Segur (Cécile Sorel), actress of the Comédie-Française...
...Unknown Warrior. Paul Raynal, who fought in French trenches, wrote the play and it was presented four years ago at the Comédie Français amid the indignant growls of old men. Since then it has been played all over Europe, to great cheers in Germany, and the approval of Bernard Shaw in London. Last week Charles Hopkins, who now has a small theatre of his own in which to produce the plays he likes, unveiled it for Manhattan...