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Club de Femmes (Jacques Deval), made in France, is a naive, sometimes sad, sometimes merry, typically Gallic approach to a theme similar to that of Maedchen in Uniform, Eight Girls in a Boat and other film treatments of repressed girlhood. Manhattan censors promptly spotted Sapphic overtones and more frankness than young girls ought,to show, ordered several cuts. Its U. S. sponsors, Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn, gloomily anticipated even severer censorship in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas...
Playwright Jacques Deval (Tovarich, Mademoiselle, Her Cardboard Lover), author and director, sets his scene in a Parisian girls' club whose portals no man may pass-officially. Of course one manages to slip in, thus providing a thread to the tale and bringing pretty Danielle Darrieux (this time, in contrast to her star-crossed Marie Vetsera in Mayerling, a lively minx) a climax of illicit motherhood. Manhattan censors ordered an English subtitle indicating that Danielle and her young man (Raymond Gall) have been secretly married all along...
...fragile anecdote, Cafe Metropole turns out to be thoroughly entertaining. Russian Actor Ratoff, who wrote the story from which Author Jacques Deval (Tovarich) adapted the screen play, acts his fat part with the enthusiasm it deserves, sets the pace for the rest of a cast of which each member is performing a specialty in which he is tops. Good shot: Adolphe Menjou, Hollywood's ablest exponent of the art of playing maitre d' hotel since The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926), introducing a dish of wild strawberries, brought from Algeria by special plane...
Mademoiselle (by Jaques Deval; William A. Brady, producer). Playgoers who saw Mademoiselle in Paris last spring and summer got the impression that the piece was a social problem drama. In the U. S. production, ably adapted by Producer Brady's second wife, Grace George, and acted in by his daughter, Alice Brady, part of it is still a social problem. The rest has been turned into hilarious farce. The Brady family's skill prevents the two elements from curdling...
THAT GIRL-Jacques Deval - Viking...