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...Grand Maneuver (U.M.P.O.). "Love," René Clair announced recently, "is a very serious matter." To prove his point, Director Clair offered this picture, which happily proves nothing - except that Clair is as good as he ever was. In 34 years he has made more than 20 movies, and most of them (The Million, The Italian Straw Hat, The Ghost Goes West, Beauties of the Night) are lovely things-as breezy as a Paris gutter, as delicate as a young French pea. This one is no exception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

Depend upon it-depend upon René Clair-that young devil had the luck of the draw. She was a pretty little milliner (Michele Morgan) from Paris. Not even a husband to worry about, and only one lover (Jean Desailly). The lieutenant gave chase-and right there his luck gave out. He met her at a ball; she was distant. He asked if he might take her home; she refused. He followed her anyway; she shut the door in his face. He crept into her boudoir; her lover came calling before anything could happen. In the church, in the park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 15, 1956 | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...CLAIR DONOVAN Grand Rapids, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LETTERS: Letters, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...tell him the war is lost, he vests command in the SS. A squad of Hitler youth, who have done men's work in the battles before Berlin, are marched in to be decorated. Hitler pats their cheeks, pins medals on them and gives each one an éclair. At night he gets an injection to put him to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

While she was questioned, Mrs. Marks tried to light two more fires; to Secret Service agents she explained that she had a lot of trash and wanted to burn it. The agents determined that she lived in St. Clair Shores, Mich., had arrived in Washington two days earlier by bus, that since 1932 she had periodically been in mental hospitals. She was packed off to Gallinger Hospital for observation because, as Presidential Press Secretary Hagerty explained it, she was "not quite lucid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: The Visitor | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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