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Paying less attention to historical fact than comic situation, writer-director Marcel Arnaud fills his screenplay with amusing scenes. In one of the funniest, Hortense bewilders her stage lover by singing the lines of her part to a boxful of royal admirers. As Hortense, Yvonne Printemps doesn't sing very well, which is unfortunate as she sings a lot. But she is properly capricious, and her dresses are by Dior. Though Pierre Dux makes a fine Russian general, the rest of the cast is just adequately funny. Only Fresnay makes a great deal of his part, but the movie needs...
When Christmastime came, the monastery hummed with activity. Each monk was hard at work preparing a present for the Virgin. The cook baked an enormous many-tiered cake called "The Church Triumphant," the poet composed a miles-long Latin poem, Brother Arnaud presented Mary with the smallest illuminated Bible ever made, and Brother Thomas made an ivory carving of the Christ child that was so huge that a man had to stand away off to see it all. Juggler Cantalbert did not know what...
...WAGES OF FEAR (186 pp.) -Georges Arnaud - Farrar, Sfraus & Young...
...these faults are hardly worth carping about. The Wages of Fear is a first novel by Georges Arnaud, 34, a wartime refugee from France who made his way to Central America, worked as truck driver and gold prospector, and soaked himself in the life of the oil fields. His story marks Arnaud as one of those literary naturals who find their bent the first try. Brutal, violent and good storytelling, The Wages of Fear makes a lot of hard-boiled writers look like children writing for their maiden aunts...
Died. James Gow, 45, onetime newspaperman who collaborated with Scenarist Arnaud d'Usseau on two hit melodramas for Broadway (Tomorrow the World, Deep Are the Roots) and the movie thriller Fourteen Hours; of hypertension; in Manhattan...