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...French functionaries in the protectorate-collectively a powerful group-for whom a Tunisian government would mean loss of jobs. To placate the colons, Mendès last week removed Resident General Pierre Voizard, whom the settlers regard as too soft, and appointed a new Resident, hard-bitten Lieutenant General Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, commander of French forces in Tunisia, who is popular with the colons...
...Earrings of Madame De . . . A bubbling little masterpiece of ormolu romance and French wit, triple sec, lovingly directed by Max Ophuls: with Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica (TIME, July...
Secret Sweetener. The earrings of the title, a present from Count de _____ (the family name is never mentioned), a French general of the '90s (Boyer), to his wife (Darrieux), are secretly sold by the lady to the family jeweler in order to cover "certain expenses." Next night at the opera, she pretends to have lost them, and a newspaper reports that they have been stolen. Reading this, the jeweler takes alarm, and hastens with his secret to the count. Amused, the count buys his jewels back, presents them to a mistress he is just discarding, as a sort...
Devastating Charm. Boyer as the count is like no Boyer ever seen on the Hollywood screen. Gone are all the mannerisms, the soulful eye-woggling and love-me-please pout. He is the military aristocrat to the last shoe button, going a fair piece down Swann's Way with no illusions-an intelligent, very French, clearly self-knowing performance. As the countess, Darrieux nicely achieves an odd mix of innocence, flirtiness, and neurasthenia, but cannot quite hold her own with the competition...
...even Boyer, in fact, quite hold the stage with De Sica. Although De Sica is 53, Ophuls had the eye to see him as a lover-and a lover of devastating charm he makes. De Sica conveys the sense of a man old enough to know what he really wants of a woman, still young enough to get it, and, most exciting of all, strong enough to say no when he has had enough...