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Three of them are serious in tone-lust, envy, and pride. Roberto Rossellini's Envy, based on a story from Collette, is a frightening study of a wife's insane jealousy of her husband's cat. Orfeo Tamburi gives a sensitive portrayal of the artist husband, while Andree Debar powerfully plays the sulking, possessive wife who brings to her marriage little more than her physical appeal...
Andrée Debar* first heard that she looked like Evita a year ago, when she appeared at a film festival in Uruguay (as a brunette). After Evita's death last July, Andrée wangled a promise from France's Elysée studios to star her if she could get Argentina to approve the filming of the life of Eva Pero...
...sell his wobbly minority to automakers who, now that they must have some union, ask nothing more than an orderly one. For selling talk, Mr. Martin had his delegates pledge themselves to observe their contracts, keep out Communists, Nazis and Fascists, and debar all such gentry from office. In doing so Homer Martin alienated radicals who have stood loyally by him and supplied the bulk of his administrative brains...
...society page of the New York Herald Tribune one day last week appeared the following item: "Mr. and Mrs. Debar de Brunhoff, of Paris, announce the birth of triplets, Pom, Flore and Alexandre, early in March in Paris. The entire family is now in New York visiting Mrs. Richard A. Kimball (Josephine J. Dodge) at 714 Madison Avenue. Mrs. de Brunhoff is the former Miss Celeste d'Aguillon, of Paris...
...result, Dr. Conant goes on to remark, "In the larger faculties more and more work is being done by administrative boards or committees. This is a very efficient system but tends to debar from discussion a large number and keeps the president from being in close touch with the general sentiment." It is to remedy the admitted defect of the present form of faculty meeting, and at the same time re-establish the former good, that the new council of sixty has been called into being. With a provision for rotation in office, it should permit "all the members...