Word: raoul
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...merger at four or five times its actual value. Came the Wall Street crash and World Depression. Banque Adam, Oustric et Cie and other Oustric companies failed for a total of $56,000,000. Among the many roars of protest from bilked investors it was loudly charged that Raoul Peret, Minister of Justice, had been receiving secret sums from the Oustric bank. Prime Minister Tardieu defended his minister in the Chamber, was booted out of power by the Senate (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week the Oustric case grew hotter & hotter. Clement Moret, governor of the Bank of France, testified that...
...Tardieu faced MM. Les Senateurs backed by the prestige of a vote of confidence he had just won in the Chamber of Deputies by a majority of 64. The worst that could fairly be said against his Government was that he recently accepted the resignation of Minister of Justice Raoul Peret when it appeared that many years ago M. Peret was the attorney of M. Albert Oustric, French swindler jailed last month. Senator René Héry of the Democratic Left who led the attack on M. Tardieu adroitly made the most of this...
...Kruger trying to extricate himself from an embarrassing situation when his wife and a detective raid his hideaway. Room of Dreams. This play had a complicated birth-written by Daniel Coxe from a translation by James L. A. Burrell and Anne Sprague MacDonald of the original Viennese of Ernest Raoul Weiss. But polyglot parentage cannot be entirely responsible for the nonsensical finished product which ushered in the New York Theatre Assembly's season. It seems that Lucien, unable to win Adrienne-his best friend's wife-has his rooms decorated precisely like the intimate chambers of his beloved...
Ideally suited to this formidably imaginative photography was the theme of America's conquest of the West. This was a salable idea long before The Covered Wagon and will still be salable long after The Big Trail. Director Raoul Walsh (The Cockeyed World) flaunted its hardships violently and often unforgettably. His emigrants fought the earth, the elements and the Indians vividly for twelve reels. At one point they even lowered their wagon train over a grim precipice on home made tackle...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hallelujah, Not So Dumb); 3) Clarence Brown of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Anna Christie, Wonder of Women) ; 4) Lionel Barrymore of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Madame X, His Glorious Night). Others: Ernst Lubitsch, Roy Del Ruth, Herbert Brenon, James Whale, Frank Lloyd, Sidney Franklin. Good directors not placed: Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Arzner, Edmund Goulding, Frank Borzage...