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Died. Maurice de Wendel, 82, last survivor of the seventh generation of dynastic Lorraine iron and steelmakers, who as head of "The Grandsons of Fran-gois de Wendel and Company" managed an industrial empire that last year amassed sales of more than $300 million and carried on a tradition of benevolent feudalism that included schools and hospitals and cultural centers for De Wendel workers; of a heart attack; in the family chateau at Joeuf, near Nancy in the Lorraine...
...Paris monthly, Cahiers du Cinéma, the Parisian equivalent of Schwab's Drugstore in Hollywood, a place where young hopefuls loiter. In the late '50s, every young French director who had directed nothing wrote for Cahiers. One by one, they emerged - Claude Chabrol with The Cousins, François Truffaut with The 400 Blows. Only Jean-Luc Godard seemed to stay behind, and one day he disappeared with the Cahiers' petty cash. Chabrol and Truffaut wondered if Godard was trying to finance a film. They came to his aid, the money was amicably restored, and more...
Riot Connoisseur. De Gaulle has managed to reduce the potency of French extremists. Even as the two men conferred, a few hundred demonstrators, led by Jacques Soustelle, marched down the Champs Elysees crying "Algerie Française!" and "Bourguiba assassin!" Most Parisians watched with indifference and went their way. One cafe waiter, a veteran connoisseur of Parisian riots, said contemptuously, "This is the merest caricature of a demonstration...
...Gaulle uprising in Algiers, only six were found guilty-and all six had already fled to safety in exile. The stiffest in absentia sentences were handed out to the co-leaders of the uprising: death was decreed for burly Barkeeper Joseph Ortiz, chief of the terrorist Front National Français, and ten years' imprisonment for bearded, handsome Pierre Lagaillarde, the ex-paratrooper and student hero at the University of Algiers. A right-wing crowd at court wildly cheered the acquittals and the obvious fact that those found guilty are beyond the reach...
...rival troupe, a lot more at acting itself. In L'lmpromptu, Molière personally directs the rehearsal, sketches actors' roles, silhouettes their shortcomings, and is now friendly, now irritable, now ironic amid travestied types of people and exaggerated modes of acting. With the Comédie Française players bringing a sense of style to their very distortions of it and making every baroque French character a bright character part, L'Impromptu is a neatly controlled romp, a briskly ceremonious curtain raiser...