Word: cour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tired Business. The M.C., null Blanche, played straight man to Comic Pierre Cour. Cour, pince-nezed and Tat-tersall-vested, impersonated "Monsieur Albert," who poses in café society as a rich joyeux garçon-but fools nobody, because he has forgotten to remove his bombazine bookkeeper's sleeves. Monsieur Albert heckled guest stars, mispronounced their names-a bit of business that is just as tired in France...
Such individualism is the show's chief virtue. And even with all its vices, it is cheap at the price. The whole business, including salaries for Blanche, Cour, six guest stars and 22 musicians, costs only 90,000 francs...
Sleek, supercilious Pierre-Etienne Flan-din had four days last week in which to explain his 56-day term as Vichy's Foreign Minister. In the hot, jammed Haute Cour at Versailles, the 57-year-old former Prime Minister and prewar leader of the French Right alternately explained and extolled his political tactics of the last decade...
...moment the spotlight shifted from the treason trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Pátain to his wife and the wife of Pierre Laval. In Paris' Cour de Justice, the two women, once among the French elite, now accused of "intelligence with the enemy," answered questions in a preliminary interrogation...
...last week's show there was contemporary regionalism, fantasy, plain reporting. One report with gently humorous overtones was 37-year-old Jean-Charles Faucher's Cour d'Ecole (Schoolyard), an action-crowded view of French Canadian boys at play (see cut), in which the figures resembled waves of water bugs contending for three black beans-their footballs...