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Arise, My Love (Paramount) turns the neat trick of setting a comedy against the background of current events in Europe. Its principal device is to hustle a carefree American aviator (Irish-born Ray Milland) and a beauteous American reporter (French-born Claudette Colbert) through a series of romantic interludes spiced with lines whose moral and political implications would have made the Hays office of a year ago writhe in righteous indignation. While Milland is escaping from a Spanish prison camp, drinking with Miss Colbert in Paris just prior to the outbreak of war, and making love in the forest...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major (Saxon State Orchestra, Karl Bohm conducting, with Walter Gieseking; Columbia: 8 sides). But for the still-smoldering fire of two grand old men of pianism (Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff) French-born, 44-year-old Walter Gieseking would be ranked by most connoisseurs as today's No. i pianist. Here Pianist Gieseking gives Beethoven's most lyric piano concerto its finest recording to date...
...Paso, Marie Térèse Rétain, 83, French-born widow of a Texas physician, said of her brother-in-law, the 84-year-old Premier of France: "He is too old for his present responsibility. He should not have taken...
...opposite numbers for these CBS flashes, NBC has as its permanent staff a talented trio headed by tall, cadaverous Max Jordan, veteran London representative Fred Bate, and French-born, ex-poilu Paul Archinard. Number three U. S. network, MBS, is headed by John Steele in London, by Waverley Root in France, depends on space-rate orators like veteran Newshen Sigrid Schultz in Berlin and hard-working Arthur Mann, now covering the R. A. F. Both NBC and CBS have their European correspondents on the air regularly for two 15-minute periods daily...
DILDO CAY-Nelson Hayes-Houghton Miff I in ($2.50). West Indies novel, by a 36-year-old, French-born, U. S.-educated Connecticut businessman. Laid on a tiny windswept island (composite of Turks & Caicos), the story twists around the romance between the scion of a hardbitten, salt-making family and a disillusioned blonde who arrives from Bermuda to keep books. Hemingwaywardness bristles on the story like barnacles. But it has one claim to originality: Author Hayes's ingenuity in getting Adrian and Carol alone together on the island. Adrian's father drowns; his mother dies of neurosis...