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...year old French champion, Alain Giletti, also captured the spectators' interest yesterday, taking seventh place in the compulsory figures competition...
Winner of the first prize ($750) in the 12-to-16 age group was an Austrian boy named Franz Luttenberger, who did a happy gouache of his village. The other top prize went to a six-year-old French boy, Alain Cardot (4-to-11 class) for a spirited splash of workmen clambering over a half-built house. Alain was in seventh heaven. He lives in a cramped Paris tenement with his father, who is a pensioned French Resistance veteran, his mother and a sister. Said Alain: "Now, mama, I will buy you a bigger house...
...Paris, Viscountess Marie-Laure de Noailles asked guests to come dressed as if they were going to a 1900 frolic at a seaside resort. The result: U.S. Ambassador David Bruce came as a valet de chambre, with Mrs. Bruce turned out as a lady's maid; Baron Alain de Rothschild played a bearded sea captain; Couturier Jacques Fath slipped into a simple bearskin creation, to match the gypsy getup of his pretty blonde wife, who is his favorite model...
...decade, James Laughlin IV, rebellious great-grandson of the co-founder of Jones & Laughlin Steel, has subsidized a publishing house (New Directions) that has scorned the usual commercial limitations of the U.S. book business. Ready to face financial losses, Laughlin has put out cheap reprints of modern classics (e.g., Alain-Fournier's The Wanderer), little-known but excellent European books and works by young American writers which no other publisher would take a chance...
...Devil's Envoys (Paulvé; Superfilm), which is based on the medieval romance Les Visiteurs du Soir, is a French film about a minstrel (Alain Cuny) and his mistress (Arletty) who travels disguised as his brother. One evening they turn up among the entertainers at a small French chateau. These unusually talented musicians are capable of magic, as well as music; they are emissaries of the Devil (Jules Berry). Their business in the world is to seduce immortal souls through the transient flesh...