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...have been on the whole, excellent, though not always pleasing to the tastes of everyone. One which was the subject of criticism was the admirably directed "Marius" because the dialect of its characters was a medley of French and Italian sounds. Except for this, the films, and especially Rene Clair's, which have been shown periodically, have given students an opportunity to hear the spoken French language in a pleasant...
...George Clair St. John...
...Keyser Bachrach West Newton John Warren Beach New York City Richard Soudder Neff Chicago, Illinois Hamilton Young Newton FOR IVY ORATOR Alfred Kidder, II Andover Stuart Scott, Jr. New Rochelle, New York Stephen Henry Stackpole Milton FOR ORATOR William Benjamin Bacon Jamaica Plain James Marcellus Lichliter Columbus, Ohio George Clair St. John, Jr. Wallingford, Connecticut Donal Mark Sullivan Boston FOR ODIST Sherman Edgar Conrad, Jr. Toledo, Ohio Henry Caraway Hatfield Evanston, Illinois FOR POET Robert McConnell Hatch Cambridge Roland Maycock New York City William Stephen Thomas New York City FOR CHORISTER George Hawkins Acheson Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Joseph Manton Bradley Milton...
Aside from the epistemological photography of which Clair is a master, the swaggering, lilting, scurrying action of the plot perambulates the great problem of Society in the Machine Age. The prison and the factory, could any one mistake that parallel? Yet this is a parody that parodies itself. Nothing is taken seriously but the friendship of Louis and Emile, whose adventures in gently inept romance and business melodrama, respectively, run hilariously together: and since this is no very serious matter, either, we are never required to depart from the tone established with such precision in the early scenes. M. Clair...
...Rene Clair, who is the author of "Le Million," which was chosen by the committee as their initial production of last year, also wrote "A Nous, La Liberte." The music was written by Aurie, a well-known Parisian composer...