Word: frans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Lord Ashley, 46, heir to the Earldom of Shaftesbury; by his second Lady,* the former Mile. Françoise Soulier, 36; after ten years of marriage, two children; in London...
German P.W. camp to help print the underground paper Lettres Françaises in a Montmartre cellar. He is the first nonacademic artist ever to win the coveted Prix National de Peinture, and also one of the most articulate members of the twelve. Says...
...Paris. Last week, as they usually do, some 400 Frenchmen crowded into the 250-seat Rue Washington studio to watch the broadcast. They did not expect much. Every Frenchman knows that French radio is terrible (see cut). The only dependable thing about the 43 stations in Radio Diffusion Française is program quality. It is always poor...
...that the play flowed pauselessly as fate itself to its blood-slippery conclusion. The cast, down to the minor roles, played with assurance and conviction. Head & shoulders above this excellent support stood the Hamlet of Louis-Jean Barrault, onetime pantomimist and cinemactor, and a brilliant renegade from the Comedie Française. Barrault's Hamlet was real, immediate, full-bodied, and above all intelligent...
...penetration and subtlety with which these characters are handled will be moving even to readers who share none of the background. The author, François Mauriac, 61, has as great an international reputation as his fellow Catholic, Georges Bernanos (TIME, Oct. 14). A collected edition of his novels is being brought out in England, and several U.S. publishers are thinking it over...