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Playtime. In the good old days in Hollywood, when a girl fell in love with the boy next door, the kids got married and lived happily ever after. In this new French film, based on a story by Françoise Sagan, the girl (Jean Seberg) is a spoiled NATO tomato, the boy (Christian Marquand) is a kept man, and they would obviously rather have a ball than a wedding...
Sick and sixteen, the heroine is the daughter of a U.S. officer who puts her up at a fancy French academy while he assiduously golfs to keep himself in SHAPE. Flirty and thirty, the hero is a sculptor who sponges off a rich woman (Françoise Prévost)-and takes her money too. One day the girl jumps the wall that divides her school from his house, and introduces herself. She needs a man, she world-wearily explains to him. "from time to time." He needs a change of sheets to help him sleep better-he has nightmares...
Jean Seberg, as she was in Breathless, is depressingly effective as a small-town broad abroad, the sort of disinhibited Amie most Frenchmen earnestly implore to go home. Françoise Moreuil, Seberg's ex-husband, shows a pretty flair for direction in his first film. He keeps the story bouncing from pillow to Proust, and he bathes scene after scene in a morning light of such glittering purity that the spectator is simultaneously delighted by the physical beauty and disgusted by the morbid decadence he sees. It's like being served a dead mouse glac...
Anyone interested in attending the St. Lawrence and Clarkson hockey games this Friday and Saturday at Potsdam, N.Y., can obtain round trip transportation on the team plane for $30 by telephoning Fran Toland on University extension 2202 today...
...they blew it in the second half. But after the Crimson had endured an agonizing ten-minute famine without a basket and the Green had taken a 39-33, Harvard rallied and closed the gap to one point. Then Merle McClung hit on a pair of foul shots, and Fran Martin and Leo Scully connected on field goals, giving the Crimson the victory. Scully paced Harvard's scoring with 13 points; Len Strause had nine...