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...main characters, Lili (Sonia), Rene Brunel (Raskolnikov), Nicole Brunel (Dounia) and Inspecteur Gallet (Porfiry), act their way through the famous intellectual-kills-pawnbroker-and-suffers plot with a considerable degree of accomplishment. Robert Hossein as Rene seems to suffer a bit too dramatically but this is probably in the novel and becomes grating only when it actually has to be seen on the screen. Marina Vlady is properly wistful and ineffectual as Lili, the embodiment of the beautiful soul who becomes a prostitute to feed the family which her stepfather has deserted, and Ulla Jacobssen is excellent in the less...
...idea was not new. Yardley of London, Inc. (now made in New Jersey), Roger & Gallet, and Guerlain, Inc. had, in a limited way, gone into the lotion-and-lavender field for men 30 years ago, had then been followed, timidly and on a small scale, by other talc and cosmetic makers. Altogether in 1939 they grossed only about $12,000,000 a year, small change compared to the half-billion-a-year business in women's cosmetics...
...Pittstown, Pa., coal mines at 17, stocky, square-faced, blue-eyed Faustin E. Wirkus enlisted in the Marine Corps, was shipped to Haiti in 1917 as a sergeant. While serving at the tiny outpost of Anse à Gallet, he saw a hard-boiled tax collector drag in a big black Haitian woman who had defied the law. She said she was Queen Timemenne of La Gonave. Sergeant Wirkus smoothed out her troubles, got her free...
Pensions?Dr. Charles Gallet...
...nine "republicans of good will" starred (*) above held posts in the last cabinet. Of utmost political importance are the three new ministers from the party of Hornet Daladier?namely M. Hubert (Justice), M. Marraud (Public Instruction), M. Gallet (Pensions). It is just possible that the presence of these Radical Socialists will swing the vote of that party to the cabinet, though Hornet Daladier was believed preparing to sting again. In reality Tardieu L'Americain was appealing to French public opinion over the heads of politicians?a trick he may possibly have learned in the U. S. On the face...