Word: counted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What there is of plot seems to be a Gallicized That's My Boy, in which the Count de Courvallon (played by Chevalier) tries to make a man of his son. His son, the youngest member of the French Academy ("poor boy," murmurs his father) is a young entomologist whose chief goal in life is the capture of Rameses, the rare pink caterpillar. The theme of most of the jokes is a statement made by the Count to his son: "Girls are so much more interesting than boys...
...girls referred to, the "seven little sins," are seven actresses who, stranded in a small town, try to get railroad fare home by posing as the Count's illegitimate daughters. Most appealing of these seven is Luisella (Delia Scala), whose angelic face and noble motives are intended to fool no one. Traveling actresses in France know their way around...
...situation of the Count--trying to make love to these girls, and being stopped by the paternal instinct, is at first quite amusing, but wears thin as more and more daughters turn...
This restraint seems quite uncharacteristic on the part of the Count, who at the beginning of the picture encourages his mistress to meet him at a certain rendezvous with the argument that it was once the hangout of the Marquis de Sade...
After the Fireworks. "The Problem now," says the Art Institute's director, Edward H. Dwight, 38, "is to keep them coming." Director D wight can apparently count on the drawing power of the new building's architecture. "It just insists that you wander in," said one Milwaukeean. When the city staged a fireworks celebration for its World Series-winning Braves last month in front of the Memorial Center, some 7,100 celebrators decided to take in the art show. Many of them had never been in an art gallery...