Word: vied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...NATURAL MOTHER-Dominique Dunois-Macaulay ($2.50). This book was awarded the 1929 Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse, a cash prize of 5,000 francs offered annually by the two French magazines of that name. That it won the prize merely indicates that the French are not always so gay. Neither a cheerful nor an aphrodisiac story, its flaming jacket suggests that at least it has its lickerish moments. Not so. A stout French peasant lass, Georgette Garou, knows what she wants and goes after it with few words and indomitable dignity. She wants to keep her farm, to get a husband...
Everyone knows how in less than a year Gigolo Subkoff ran through Princess Victoria's $3,000,000 fortune, squandered it on wenches, motors and champagne while she adoringly forgave. Little known in the U. S. are Subkoff's memoirs: Ma Vie et Mes Amours, printed recently at Paris. He writes with surprising decency?for a gigolo?of Princess Victoria, explains as delicately as possible how a youth of 27 can fall in love with a widow...
...Vie et les Oeuvres de Jean Racine" X. President Guy, five o'clock, Emerson...
...Vie et les Oeuvres de Jean Racine" IX, President Guy, five o'clock, Emerson...
...lecture in the series being given by Henri Guy, President of the University of Grenoble, France, will be given this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Emerson D. The title of this lecture, which is given in French, "Euripide et Racine: Phedre." The entire series has the title, "La Vie et les Oeuvres de Jean Racine...