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Stewart Granger heads the cast of classicists in the dual lead of king and commoner, Deborah Kerr is the provocative princess, James Mason the invidious villian, Jane Greer, a femina ex machina, and Louis Calhern the cunning colonel and tutor of tyrants. Louis Stone, who played the hero in the original version, appears briefly as the bishop...
Three Martinis. Something similar, though on a smaller scale, was happening simultaneously to a score of other French authors. The Prix Femina had gone to Serge Groussard for his La femme sans passé, a grim story of a murderess' flight on a river barge; the Prix Théophraste Renaudot to Pierre Molaine (in real life Major Léopold Faure, tank officer in the French army) for his Les orgues de I'enfer, a story about a resistance fighter hiding from the Gestapo in an insane asylum. The fourth big prize, the Prix Interalli...
France's Prix Femina is a literary award (5,000 francs) that was created in 1904 to lend to novels by and about women a prestige formerly denied them: France's top literary honor, the august Prix Goncourt, is reserved for male authors only. Last week, the 17 elderly French women writers who award the Prix Femina found their task too grisly, seemed about ready to leave prize-giving to the menfolk. "Life in today's novel," said one of the judges in an interview, "is twisted to eroticism. For instance...
Georges Bernanos is France's most distinguished Catholic author-and his own Church's sharpest critic. His literary reputation rests chiefly on three religious novels : Diary of a Country Priest, Joy, The Star of Satan (TIME, June 17, 1940). Joy won the Prix Femina in 1929, and now appears in translation for the first time...
...bombed, defeated Berlin, the most popular songstress was blonde Edith Morell, one of the first Jewish entertainers to make a postwar hit. Her audience, which had followed her from the Femina Club to the Kabarett der Komiker, heard her intone: "Come back, come back, I am waiting for you, for you are my happiness" and "Under the red lantern of St. Pauli [in Hamburg's famed red-light district] my girl stands waiting...