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...several collection points. And television antennas bristle from the rooftops of two-story concrete houses - a far cry from the mud hut in which old Mamadou was raised. Villagers have even started dreaming about building a bridge across the river to connect Ambadedi to the nearest highway, says Sekou Drame, Mamadou's brother-in-law, as he escorts a Time reporter back to the wooden pirogue that will ferry him across the river's muddy flow. "It depends on God," he says. "And our families in France." In Mexico, the Zamora family home is another tangible indicator of the impact...
...Drame à Clef. Osborne uses the occasion to contrast the manipulative vampirism of the producer with the task and plight of the writer. At play's end, the band of esthetic fugitives receive word that their boss has committed suicide. Some English reviewers have interpreted the play as a drame a clef-Osborne's public vendetta with Producer-Director Tony Richardson after a recent bitter breakup of their long working relationship. Ordinary audiences, however, can hardly be expected to make sense of arcane theatrical gossip...
...reporting a Zanuck film, Crack in the Mirror, TIME'S critic wrote, "Justice, however, is not done in the screen credits, where Producer Zanuck, under the pseudonym, Mark Canfield, generously accepts full responsibility for the screenplay." Nor is justice done by TIME to the author of the novel, Drame dans un Miroir, on which the film is based. That...
Paris' Samedi Soir called it le drame politico-passlonnel. The principal characters: Subway Conductor Jean Laffargue, 41, his wife Yvonne, 37, and Rene ("Little Napoleon") Desvillettes, 47, mayor of the deep-Red Communist suburb of Champigny. All three were loyal Communists and diligent party workers. Trouble started when the politico got mixed up with the passionnel...
...Present in Paris also have attacked Franco, plumped for nonpartisanship. Recently Author Georges Bernanos, French Catholic and Rightist, assailed Franco in a book (Grands cimetières sous la lune), and last week he was joined by another Catholic writer, Victor Montserrat, who defended the Loyalist Basque clergy (Le Drame d'un peuple incompris). The split was dramatized after the recent World Eucharistic Congress in Budapest. Pro-Franco Spanish Cardinal Goma went to visit pro-Hitler Cardinal Innitzer in Hitler's Vienna, anti-Fascist Cardinal Verdier, of Paris, to attend a demonstration in his honor in democratic Czechoslovakia...