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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28 (XVI...
...very busy girl according to her manager. In fact, so much so, that he was forced to break three engagements before he could grant a CRIMSON reporter an interview with her. When at last the lady did receive the interviewer in the French room filled with gilded Louis XVI furniture and mirrors, and known as the National Vaudeville Association's Reception Room, she told him all about her life--well, that is almost...
Civic Repertory Theatre. Eva Le-Gallienne's enterprise got underway for its fifth season with one new presentation, The Green Cockatoo by Arthur Schnitzler. Mr. Schnitzler's playlet advances the notion that slumming was a popular diversion in France during the reign of Louis XVI. Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prospère. The host has planted actors in the crowd to relate bloodcurdling events, thrill the guests, give them their money's worth. Climax...
...Versailles, where the case was tried, the magistrate found that "Louis de Bourbon" was sufficiently sincere, that he had not obtained the money on false pretenses, that "he had acted in perfect good faith in striving to obtain the succession to Louis XVI." Mme Heitz had to be satisfied with...
...Styles of Louis XV and Louis XVI," Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall...