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...attractive or unusual. The father, upper middleclass, Boer War vintage, was spoiled, conservative, selfish, in trade (kippers) but with the pretensions of a gentleman. His wife's buxomness had hardened into armor plate. Tilly, who died young, became the family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with mysticism and was homesick. As they grew into pre-War maturity they all became hopelessly more & more the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reconstruction | 5/28/1934 | See Source »

...final guarantee of innocence, pulls down a centreboard between them. All this provides Mr. & Mrs. Langner with plenty of material for salty preliminary lines, occupies two acts of their comedy. A fire-eating Virginia cavalryman, a hell-scorched preacher and a bumbling sheriff add to the fun, and Meg (crack-voiced Dennie Moore), a licentious slavey who nevertheless "keeps it patriotic." supplies the really bawdy element of the piece. A typical line of hers, addressed to a horseman to whom she has taken a fancy, ends the play: "Come into the kitchen, captain. I've got something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhatten: Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

...movies are to be shown a total of eight performances: 2.30, 5.15, and 8.15 o'clock today and tomorrow; 2.30 and 5.15 o'clock Wednesday. They are two light comedies, one entitled "Tu Seras Duchesse" starring Fernand Gravey, and the other a light musical comedy featuring Meg LeMonnier and Henri Gerat, called "II Est Charmant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH TALKING PICTURES GIVEN DURING THREE DAYS | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...movies are two light comedies, one entitled "Tu Seras Duchesse", starring Fernand Gravey, and the other a light musical comedy, with Meg Le Monnier and Henri Gerat in the leading roles. Tickets will be given to all students upon the presentation of a Bursar's card at R University Hall beginning Thursday, and there will be a total of eight performances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH TALKING PICTURES TO BE PRESENTED NEXT WEEK | 3/23/1932 | See Source »

...still running in Paris. "Tu Sera Duchesse", starring Fernand Gravey, pictures the adventures of several young people in search of matrimony, who go through an amusing succession of mistaken identity scenes, leading from one incident to another. The other movie is a musical comedy entitled "Il Est Charmant", with Meg LeMonnier and Henri Gerat in the leading roles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORE FRENCH FILMS TO SHOW IN GEOGRAPHY BUILDING SOON | 3/18/1932 | See Source »

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