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Among the bleak, soot-smudged buildings in Paris' Malakoff suburb, one small factory shines out like a beacon. Its neat brick walls are covered with vines; the windows are immaculately clean. Inside the red iron gate there is a courtyard filled with bronze statues. Plump Renoir and Maillol nudes stand side by side with muscular Bourdelle torsos, Rodin figures, and a host of lesserworks. On most of the statues, two names are inscribed. The first is the sculptor's; the second is that of the man who turned it into bronze, Eugene Rudier, the foundry...
...sure the Universal newsreel now at the Beacon Hill would please my friend. Although it started in the conventional manner, showing John Foster Dulles signing the Japanese treaty, it quickly switched to Japan itself. There, hundreds of Japanese students were rioting in protest against this same peace treaty. Blood and police billies flew through the air, as the militia tried to keep the riot in check...
Also on the Beacon Hill screen are two J. Arthur Rank reissues. The Adventuress and Night Train to Trieste are both spy pictures. The former is dull plot-wise, while the acting of Deborah Kerr is even worse. Night Train to Trieste, however, is an exciting thriller, with suave international spies, beautiful women, and a comic British busybody...
Akron's Beacon Journal (circ. 146,410 last week started a serial which will take more than ten years to complete. The serial: the full text of the Bible, Old an New Testaments, which will run in daily 200-word installments...
Explained the Beacon Journal: "Every one of us will be the better man and woman ... for having spent 35 minutes a week with the Bible...