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...FRENCHMAN'S CREEK-Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday, Doran...
...first voyage took him to the French Isle of Bourbon (now Reunion) in the Indian Ocean. It was exotic after Salem, but not as exotic as Bowditch seemed to the French when he blushed at their conversations. "Il n'a pas encore perdu sa pucelage," a Frenchman explained to a French lady. "Quelle âge avez-vous, monsieur?" she asked Bowditch. "Twenty-three." The French lady threw up her hands: "C'est une chose absolument impossible de conserver la pucelage á cette...
...This is Serious." Air-raid meetings were attended by gay, lighthearted volunteers. At a meeting in an uptown Manhattan high school, citizens giggled at an expert who tried to explain how to blackout streets. Muttered a sad-faced, sad-voiced Frenchman: "How can they laugh? This is serious." Backstreet toughies kidded earnest women block wardens until the tearful and embarrassed women gave up their jobs...
Chabrier: Trois Valses Romantiques (Robert and Gaby Casadesus on two pianos; Columbia; 4 sides). Pre-Vichy elegance and wit, glitteringly played by a Frenchman and his wife, an ex-pupil...
...Love" represents the average Frenchman's knowledge of that all important prerequisite to life, Paris has been greatly over-rated. Seductive as Danielle Darrieux may have been in her past appearances on the American screen, she displays nothing in this performance that cannot be found on any page of the Sears, Rocbuck catalogue, while that famous rake, Albert Prejcan, teaches her nothing which the Rover Boys did not known in their infancy. Featuring a distinctly amateur grade of photography and a plot which could not have passed the most leuient English A instructor, this film is definitely to be avoided...