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Beauty and the Devil (Franco-London Films; Arthur Davis) is a comical French version of the Faust legend. Writer-Director Rene Clair tells the story of Dr. Faust, who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for youth, power and pleasure, in terms of satire rather than spiritual conflict. In this version, Mephisto is a merry old devil who assumes the shape of the aging Faust while the latter becomes a dashing young student. With the help of the beautiful young gypsy. Marguerite, the rejuvenated Faust finally triumphs over Mephisto in a happy ending...
More of the younger faculty members, such as section men, will be asked to participate in the program. This year three section men are acting as junior associates to two halls. Thomas Moser is affiliated to Eliot, and Robert O'Clair and David Ferry to Moors...
...utilities, Detroit Edison Co. still gives away light bulbs. Partly because of this and similar consumer service policies, Detroit Edison, already the sixth biggest U.S. power company,* is growing so fast that it can scarcely keep abreast of demand. Last week, by the ice-clogged waters of the St. Clair River, it was rearing the structural steel for a new $95 million power plant, and was already blueprinting another one, equally big, named the River Rouge. Both are part of a four-year, $237 million expansion program which, by 1954, will have boosted Detroit Edison's capacity more than...
...calls Miracle in Milan a fable for grownups, a tale suspended midway between fantasy and reality. And in its wealth of visual ideas, its deft use of music, its passages of bitter-sweet humor, stylized playfulness and social satire, the picture recalls the best of Charlie Chaplin and Rene Clair. But it is also an original work of art, touched in its finest moments with the elusive magic of poetry...
...Clair Bee, for instance, of Long Island University should have been on trial and actually indicted in the courtroom, along with the professional gambler as briber and student as taker of bribe. I do not single out Mr. Bee for any other reason than that his name is well known and stands as a symbol for all the college presidents involved. Had these college presidents been indicted, and with them their agents, the transmitters of the bribe, there would have been a thoroughly remarkable change in the behavior of college presidents. This change in behavior would have been...