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...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...
Along the narrow, tortuous streets of old Quebec City banners urged: "Allans à I'Exposition." At the rate of 31,000 a day les Québecois poured into town-children, priests, nuns, farmers from Beauce and Beaupré. On the fairgrounds down on the flats of St. François parish they drank gallons of petite bière d'épinette, a mild sort of Gallic root beer; ate tons of frites (French fried potatoes); the children rode the miniature airplanes and the loop-the-loops, jubilantly dizzy...
Last week the Paris hawkshaws did not know who killed François Vintenon, or what the cause of death was, or why the body was black, bloated and burned. If it was not an Existentialist murder, it was at least a very ingenious...