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...Resident General, General de Latour, took up his command in Morocco. He went to the Sultan's palace to present his respects to the man he had come to fire, Ben Moulay Arafa. Bands played, and the Sultan's honor guard shuffled to attention as the lean Frenchman climbed the stairs to the throne room where Arafa sat waiting. "Everyone desires to see the spirit of friendship reign," said De Latour, looking uncomfortable. Replied the Sultan, peering uneasily: "We would be happy to see you as soon as possible to discuss the problems which interest our country...
...scene in general." For her first piece, Newshen Swanson sewed a new patch on a frayed theme: the U.S. male is a lousy lover. "Nobody can say I'm too young to know what I'm talking about," wrote Columnist Swanson, whose five marriages (three Americans, one Frenchman, one Irishman) all ended in divorce. The trouble with American men, said she, is that they have been so busy making money that they have lost "that precious something . . . called time-time in which to live the role of lover, husband, father...
...Frenchman and Arab, Christian cross and Islam crescent meet in uneasy union, but with differing degrees of hostility and hope. Besides Morocco, the French holdings...
...Sheep Has Five Legs (Raoul Ploquin; United Motion Picture Organization) is French Comedian Fernandel's 150th film and a rollicking demonstration of his virtuosity. The Frenchman with the face that has launched a thousand faces has long been a favorite in Europe, but outside the eclectic alcoves of big-city art theaters and the covers of Philippe Halsman's remarkable photographic interview, The Frenchman, he is hardly known in the U.S. Already booked for showing in 33 cities across the U.S., French-made Sheep should at last give many U.S. moviegoers their long-overdue chance to meet Fernandel...
...Escape of Mendès-France, shown on CBS's Climax (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., E.D.T.), was a dramatization of how the obscure Frenchman who was to become Premier escaped from his French fascist captors during the German occupation in 1940-41. As a true story, it is exciting; as fiction, it is a cliché. The hero is arrested, falsely accused and unjustly condemned to six years in prison, escapes by tying his bed sheets together and climbing down them. The climax of the show was ruined in a large part of the country by a transmission foul...