Word: pompadour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...junk dealer's daughter was again last week the issue that eclipsed all others in Rumania. It had been understood that King Carol was at last sending away this Jewish Pompadour. She was supposed to have been escorted out of the country and handsomely paid off by the Chief of Police of Bucharest. But last week red-haired Magda Lupescu was found to be still in Rumania and not all the King's censors and all the King's soldiers could suppress for more than a few days the fact that Pompadour Lupescu had come...
...nothing more than "a brief and dignified appearance on the stage of a young lady clad in the armor of the period." Sister Mary Bertrand declared that the Catholic Church is opposed to bathing beauty contests; that the appearance of St. Joan along with Cleopatra and Mme de Pompadour was deeply resented...
...Sheppard, an 18th century felon of note, laughed at locksmiths and was the beadle's despair of his time. His uncanny dexterity at picking his way out of gaol not only cheated the gibbet many times but made him a popular hero. Latude, whom a whim of Madame la Pompadour kept thirty-five years fast incarcerated in the Bastille, retained his sanity by taming rats and spiders in his cell. Then there is the whimsical tale of Benvenuto Cellini and the mad constable of St. Angelo...
...breeches. Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) is the greedy Minister of Finance to Louis XV (Reginald Owen). Because Voltaire (George Arliss) writes tracts denouncing his heavy taxes, the Count tries to bring him into disfavor with the King- unsuccessfully because the King enjoys Voltaire's conversation and Mme Pompadour (Doris Kenyon) finds him entertaining...
...house by a captain of dragoons (Theodore Newton). This infuriates de Sarnac. He gets his chance for revenge when Voltaire writes a play based upon court doings and containing a last act in which Louis XV is executed by his subjects. The King orders Voltaire to the Bastille, dismisses Pompadour for having made him her acquaintance. Voltaire's situation looks serious until he learns from his secretary that de Sarnac has been selling state secrets to Frederick of Prussia. When de Sarnac comes to arrest him, Voltaire shows him a packet of verses which King Frederick has sent...