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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...
...parsonage in If This Be Treason's incorrigible unreality. Show folk credited the play with about as much dramatic savoir-faire as a Sunday School cantata. Even his most devoted parishioners could not find much novelty in Dr. Holmes's and Collaborator Lawrence's dialog. Retorts President Gordon (McKay Morns, the drama's best-looking bald man) to his Secretary of State, who has just called him a fool: "A fool? Perhaps. Perhaps the world needs more fools. The wise men do not seem to have done us much good...
Informal and at times irrelevant, the play's dialog is of that bitter, witty sort that bubbles up behind the footlights, falls flat on paper. Sample...
Equipped with appallingly threadbare dialog, Storm over the Andes gives a curious impression (except for the airplanes) of having been made 20 years ago when Cinemactor Moreno was matching wits with the Hooded Terror and other hobgoblins of the old serials...
...newspapers. His weekly radio broadcasts have proved so popular that within the period of two years he has risen from 48th to ninth among the nation's air favorites. His unique Universal contract provides that he will never be cast in anything but a straight role and that his dialog will be of his own writing...