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...Vidal) who is dashingly good-looking but sort of dumb. He takes it on the lam to Paris in a stolen car, falls asleep at the wheel, cracks up, and hides out in a shack on the outskirts of Paris. There he is discovered by the neighborhood bum (Pierre Brasseur), a charming, aging lunk who drinks all night, sleeps till noon, lives off his ancient, hardworking mother, and sulks because nobody loves...
...Enfants affords U.S. moviegoers a good, long look at several of France's outstanding actors: Jean-Louis Barrault (a graceful, desperate-faced pantomimist currently playing on the Paris stage in André Gide's translation of Hamlet), bouncy Pierre Brasseur and Arletty, a sort of healthy, worldly Mona Lisa who exudes a mature type of sex appeal that Hollywood has always ignored...
...story of the Paris theater in 1848, Les Enfants du Paradis was made by the brilliant team which produced Port of Shadows and Daybreak-small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and weedy, irrepressible Writer Jacques Prevert. Its stars include Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Brasseur, who emerge from four years' darkness as two of the greatest French actors of their generation. According to TIME Correspondent Sherry Mangan, the film "sums up, crowns and finishes off" the great French cinematic tradition "in the way Joyce's Ulysses did for the novel." "It is," cabled Mangan, "the most expensive (some...
...lousy fight," admitted Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis. Thirteen thousand fight fans, gathered in Boston's Garden, heartily agreed. They had come to see Joe Louis defend his title against Al McCoy (real name: Florien La Brasseur). They knew it would be one-sided. McCoy, a local oldtimer who had been crouching around New England for ten years, had been licked by young Billy Conn only a few weeks before. But the crowd was hardly prepared for the sham battle...
...Strauss. 3. Overture, "Anacreon," Cherubini. 4. Selection, "Fortune-teller," Herbert. 5. (a) Gavotte, Marshall. (For String Orchestra and Harp.) (b) Love Song, Marshall. (For String Orchestra and Harp.) 6. Suite, "Coppelia," Delibes. Dance of the Automatons, Waltz, Czardas. 7. Waltz, "Nachtschwarmer," Ziehrer. 8. Selection, "Gondoliers," Sullivan. 9. Overture, "Le Brasseur de Preston," Auber. 10. Selection, "Robin Hood," De Koven. 11. Pizzicati, Gillet. 12. March, "Fra Bombarda," Czibulka...