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...been named yet to teach the department's course on the 19th century novel. Robert M. O'Clair '49, lecturer on English, formerly gave the course, but he is leaving the University at the end of this year...
...LOVE GAME. Philippe de Broca's bedspring farce, the first comedy turned up by the new wave of French cinéastes, bounces along like the movies did when Rene Clair first made them...
...will find the film's dialogue not very difficult to comprehend, translated adequately by the subtitles (though, of course, without the many nuances which were important to the film) and, in general, much more fun than a language lab. Actually, though, much of the humor was wordless; director Rene Clair has not lost his touch for creating telling little dramas without dialogue (also without subtlety, as was most of the film...
...Cassel creates-a ludicrous but lovable mixture of Don Juan and Peter Pan-the moviemaker says something subtle and gently ironic about the character of urban youth in modern France. But at the core of his comedy, in scenes that hop, skip and jump like almost nothing since Rene Clair's great comedies (The Million, The Italian Straw Hat), De Broca makes a gay and warm and generous point about life itself: live it while you've got it because you only get it once...
Shut away in the Ritz-Carlton, Lerner fills Apartment 1004 with cigarette smoke and new lines for Camelot. Across the hall in another suite, his two-year-old son Michael listens to a phonograph not Lerner and Loewe, but Au Clair de la Lune. Up in 1204, Loewe ("Sir Aggravate," as Lerner nicknames him) broods under the fond eye of his current, 24-year-old girl friend; he calls her "baby boy," she calls him "baby bear." For hours each day, Lerner joins Loewe at the piano as they work together on four new songs, including one called The Seven...