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...Because some Frenchmen feel, perhaps unjustly, that he and Sir John Simon jointly bungled the negotiations at Geneva after which Germany quit the Disarmament Conference and the League...
...withdrawn from the Bank of France!" At M. Blum the Premier shouted that, if defeated, he would go to the nation and tell the voters of France that their budget had been wrecked "because of the obstinacy and intriguing of the Socialists on whom the full responsibility must rest!" Frenchmen had only academic interest in the armament trust. But they cared vitally about new taxation. Officials called out the police and the Garde Républicaine, who with steel helmets, bayonets and barricades of auto buses, protected the Chamber from an angry mob. Within sound of their cries, the Deputies...
...huge patience cannot control, hero of A Nous La Liberté. There is beautiful, sluttish Pola Illery. There is aristocratic Paul Olivier who plays in July 14 one of the funniest drunks ever seen. There are half a dozen marvelous character actors whom Clair uses to fill Frenchmen. French critics found that he had used all this to achieve "poetic aura,' "poetic realism...
...refuses to work overtime, drives a hard bargain, insists on having her own way. She is the daughter (real name, Suzanne) of Paul Charpentier, editor of the Journal dee Voyage. French director Abel Gance first spotted her and called her Annabella because, in common with most literate Frenchmen, he admires "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allen Poe's poem to his dead wife. René Clair brought her fame in Le Million. Night after the first Paris showing, she signed a contract with Osso Films. Last year Clair called her back for July 14. He gets along much better with amiable...
Meetings of the club will be held the second Wednesday of each month. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 8, at Madame Burguet's restaurant in Boston. It is expected that talks will be given by members of the faculty and possibly by some visiting Frenchmen of note...