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Madeleine Renaud, member of the Comédie Franç, whose performance in Maria Chapdelaine (TIME, Oct. 7) brought her to the attention of U. S. cinemaddicts, was responsible for the sensible suggestion that the adults in La Maternelle should wear no makeup. Otherwise, credit for dialog, direction and, to a large extent, photography goes to Jean Benoit-Lévy, who adapted the picture from Léon Frapié's novel. Son of a toy manufacturer, bespectacled, 47, Director Benoit-Lévy, whose Itto, dealing with Moroccan revolution, is the current cinema sensation in France, selected...
...holders of the Prior Preference have the right to name a majority of the directorate as long as there is $10,000,000 of Prior Preference stock outstanding. In other words, the Preference holders can run the company until the company buys them out. But ever since 1927 the com-pany has been buying in its Preference stock to such an extent that it now holds $9,000,000 of this issue in its treasury, with less than $5,500,000 in public hands. But the stock bought by the company has not been retired. It still exists, classed...
...amazed to see a 'squad' of about a dozen baboons busily imitating the military exercises they had witnessed. Carrying branches of trees sloped over their shoulders like rifles, they were drawn up in line, while a baboon that was larger than the others impersonated the 'non-com,' gibbering orders...
That statement might have ended the matter, save for ulterior gossip because of which a special Governmental com-mission last week kept Dr. Weibel on tenterhooks. The rumor: Dr. Weibel is a Nazi, and therefore a menace to the Austrian Republic. The man who was supposed to be spreading such a tale: Dr. Weibel's assistant and camera-operator, Dr. Preissecker...
...June 24). His choice: Lester A. Walton, 54, newshawk of his father-in-law's New York Age, formerly writer for the defunct New York World. He visited Monrovia two years ago, was presented with a leopard skin by Liberia's President Barclay, attended sessions of the International Liberian Com-mission at Geneva. Clean shaven, bald, a modest family man, he will now return to Liberia taking his wife and two débutante daughters, 20 & 21. Said the Baltimore Afro-American of Minister-designate Walton: "His indorsements for the position come from a cross-section of American life . . . Senator Robert...