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French offerings lead the list once more. Louis Jouvet, the best actor in movies anywhere, stars in Lady Paname, which opened last week at the 55th Street Playhouse, near Seventh Avenue. God Needs Men is at the Paris, 58th and Fifth, with Pierre Fresnay in the lead role. Both Jouvot and Fresnay are masters in French with gentle cynicism...
Jean Cocteau's Orpheus winds up a long run at the 55th Street Playhouse (near Seventh). Replete with international awards, often imaginative symbolism, and sometimes stunning originality, this adaptation of the Greek legend to modern dress and psychology has added considerably to the reputation of France's jack-of-all-arts...
Orpheus is Jean Cocetau's latest revolutionary addition to the cinema. This highly original and highly praised film is at the 55th Street Playhouse off Seventh Avenue. Cocetau's first grand coup, Beauty and the Beast runs through Thursday at the Irving Place (near 14th Street) along with "Ivan the Terrible" and and through tonight at the Thalia (95th and Broadway) along with the superb Italian film, Shoe Shine...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week, delegates to the National Association of Manufacturers' 55th annual congress were in an unusually humble mood. Unlike other years, when NAMsters have freely bombarded the Administration, there were only a few stray potshots. In fact, N.A.M. ex-President Ira Mosher thought that the world situation looked so serious that ways had to be found finally to "heal the breach" between Government and business...
Music on the more serious side includes simultaneous rival presentations of Verdi's La Traviata, by the Metropolitan Opera and the New York City Opera Company (City Center, 131 West 55th) tomorrow night. The latter group puts on Aida at 8:15 tonight, Carmen Sunday afternoon, and La Boheme Sunday night...