Word: tr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Safeguard of French Art is the creation of a rotund, twinkling Frenchman, the Due de Trévise, whose great grandfather, one of Napoleon's marshals, was killed by an infernal machine in 1835 while riding beside King Louis Philippe. In gratitude to the family, the King gave their name to a street, the Rue de Trévise near the Folies-Bergère. When the Folies first opened it was gaily called the Folies-Trévise, a name which the furious family succeeded in getting changed. The present Duke likes to talk about this regretfully...
Last week La Gioconda's, smile was for a time in danger of disappearing forever. Fire broke out in some wooden scaffolding in the Pavilion de la Trémoille, where hang priceless Rubens and Rembrandt. The Mona Lisa was only 20 feet from the blaze. Workmen carried pictures hurriedly out of the room, covered others with canvas so they would not be damaged by firemen's hoses. When the excitement was over, not a single picture had been damaged. La Gioconda smiled...
...COMMONER MARRIED A KING-Baroness cle Vaughan-Washburn ($2.50). Guarded but self-revealing confessions of "Très Belle," who at 16 became the mistress of 65-year-old Belgian King Leopold II, bore him two sons, married him four days before his death...
...Maire: "Ces aimables paroles que vous venez de m'adresser au nom de votre grande Province et de votre belle ville, et que vous adressez, par moi, au peuple des États Unis, me touchent projondément et je vous prie de croire que je suis très sensible à la chaleur de votre accueil...
...white sports dress, white low-heeled shoes. She followed the singers about, pushing them, prompting them, gesturing at them, bursting occasionally into song or husky speech. She cried at the confused pianist: "Piano, piano, don't sprint! Follow the singer!'' She brusquely interrupted arias and duets: "Très pianissimo. . . . But, my dear, you are folle with love for the man! . . . The public-look at your public, there in the galleries too." Then she burst into gay applause: "C'est gentil, ça!" Prowling around, never sitting down, the woman in white went on for three...