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...People are ungrateful to the ones who make them laugh," observed Producer René Clair, cinema specialist in laughter-&-tears. "They are grateful to the ones who make them cry. The idea of beauty is associated with tears...
...About Town (RKO Radio; Pathe) is the first movie that René Clair has made in France since 1934. The Brussels World Film Festival recently chose it-under its original title, Le Silence Est d'Or-as the finest motion picture made anywhere last year...
...hands of René Clair, this yarn might have become a wonderful piece of fun. Bernard Miles and Charles Saunders, who collaborated in writing and directing Pipit, are not quite equal to their idea; and Mr. Miles, who is too young to play the colonel, is not quite up to his role. Now & then the picture, probably the most intensely insular movie the British have yet exported to the U.S., becomes too clumsy or too coy; from beginning to end it is as genteel as rectory crumpets. And though none of the classical Village Types is revealed on the level...
...Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m. NBC). Chopin's Polonaise in A-Flat Major, Debussy's Clair de Lune, Grieg's Erotik and Concerto in A Minor (last movement). Guest: Pianist Artur Rubinstein...
...honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze statuette of St. Michel, went to René Clair's French Le Silence Est d'Or (Man About Town), starring Maurice Chevalier. A special award went to Roberto (Open City) Rossellini's Italian Paisa (Country Town). French Gerard Philipe was honored as the year's best actor for his work in Le Diable au Corps...