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...wonderful farm where pigs have wings, the wolf who ate Little Red Ridinghood goes vegetarian, and two little French girls named Delphine and Marinette share all their secrets with the animals and none with their parents. Aymé, a skilled satirical taxidermist of the French middle class (The Barkeep of Blémont, The Miraculous Barber), brings his farm animals to life so wisely and winningly that he is now being hailed in France as the best fabulist since La Fontaine...
...secondary growth-he has been highly praised in the U.S. as one of the best products of his country. The reason for the difference in taste probably is that Satirist Ayme's dry caricatures hit the American palate as typically Gallic. Such novels as The Barkeep of Blemont and The Miraculous Barber have been so successful here that his U.S. publishers have now dug out one that is 18 years old. It turns on a murder...
Actress Michaels handles the title role in this inexpensive picture with vulgar assurance. Actor Egan is almost her tough match. The minor parts, especially the barkeep's wife (Evelyn Scott) and a lecherous pants-presser (Percy Helton), are also well attended to. Producer Clarence Greene and Director Russell Rouse, who also collaborated on a competent script, deserve high credit. Having decided to serve cheap whisky, they had the wit and the courage to serve it straight...
...women drop their housework to listen to his loud, lively songs. Then coins drop from some of the windows, and his partner scrambles for the centavos. Late in the day, dusty and tired, he finds his way to a corner cantina. "Do we make a deal?" he asks the barkeeper. "Why not?" says the barkeep, and pours out a liter of pulque. Wiping the milky froth from his lips, the organ grinder then reels off three numbers that have the hod carriers at the bar singing at the tops of their voices...
...this point, strangers to the novels of Marcel Aymé may very well decide that he is merely setting the stage for slapstick. But as readers of The Barkeep of Element and The Miraculous Barber have reason to know, Author Aymé is one of the most formidable ironists alive. He takes Lead Merchant Cerusier for a quicksilver ride among such big questions as: How much of life is essence and how much appearance? Is a man what he looks...