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...director Rene Clair's earlier films, "The Ghost Goes West" lacks the subtle flavor of his later productions. Instead, "The Ghost" throws its humor at you openly and loudly. All you need do is be there to catch...

Author: By Ira J. Rimson, | Title: The Ghost Goes West | 5/6/1953 | See Source »

Others named are Robert M. O'Clair 4G of Kirkland house and Cambridge, to study at Birkbeck College, London University; Burton E. Pike 1G of Perkins Hall and Newton Center, to study at the University of Strasbourg; and Andrew J. Posey, Jr. 2G of 4 Greenough Ave. and Yonkers, N.Y., to study at Tokyo University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 8 Grad Students Given Fulbrights | 4/28/1953 | See Source »

...show, and even slapstick has charm in his hands. Rene Clair's direction keeps the pace fast and light, never dragging behind Chevalier's cavorting. Essentially trite in plot, Le Silence Est D'Or is still great fun, and the reason is Chevalier...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Le Silence Est D'Or | 4/15/1953 | See Source »

...money." Office wags joke that in one more generation, or perhaps two, the Star will need no help at all from outside families. The top "outsider" on the Star is Editor McKelway. He is also the only non-family stockholder. McKelway, brother of The New Yorker's St. Clair McKelway, was given one share so that he could sit on the paper's board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Old Lady of Washington | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

Michel Simon makes a bawdy, bumbling old Mephisto, whose bearded, grinning face constantly pops up at windows and peers out from behind shrubbery. As the young Faust, Gerard Philipe is a romantic figure. Director Clair describes his picture as "tragicomedy." It has neither the passion of Marlowe's and Goethe's Fausts nor the visual inventiveness of Clair's best films (Sous les Toits de Paris, A Notts La Liberte), but it is an unconventional and diverting treatment of a traditional tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 15, 1952 | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

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