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...Carnet Du Bal," by Julian Duvivier will be presented by the French Talking Films Committee on Thursday and Friday, January 12 and 13 at 1.45 and 4:15 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 6:45 and 9 o'clock in the evening...
...school in every village. These schools (vidya mandirs: "temples of learning") will be opened in 166 villages of one province next month and the Central Advisory Board of Education is planning to establish them soon throughout India. Championing the plan is the board's bespectacled, English-educated president, Bal Gangadhar Kher, Premier of Bombay, father of five children and himself a one-time schoolteacher...
Some 1,500 grim-faced prisoners in the Rightists' San Cristóbal fortress at Pamplona, 30 miles from the French border, suddenly attacked a few of their guards, connived with the others, and last week succeeded in executing a mass jailbreak. In a few days, posses of Rightist Civil Guards rounded up 600 fugitives, killed scores more in clashes in the dense thickets of the Navarre border territory. A few prisoners managed to escape to France and there revealed that many of those who took part in the escape were not Leftist prisoners of war but Rightists, members...
...Garnet de Bal (Marie Bell, Harry Baur, Franchise Rosay, Raimu; TIME, April...
...doubtful if "Un Carnet de Bal" deserved the Venice award as the greatest picture of 1937. It is far from great; although they may strike American audiences as novel, the trick plot and twisted cynicism are old stuff on the European screen. But Julien Duvivier, master of French directors--he has made better films than this--has given "Un Carnet" the touch of the artist, which combines with competent acting and force photography to make the picture thoroughly worthwhile...