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This reviewer must admit that he has no sentimental attachments to the Gallic charm of Maurice Chevalier, as it was known and loved years ago. Possibly this is a limitation. My first view of Chevalier has left me uncaptivated, although I was nowhere near demanding my money back. If the songs in his latest picture seemed a little flat and his smiles a little like saying "green cheese," other members of the cast and a barrage of double entendres provide a mildly entertaining evening...
...Raoul Dautry, then French armaments minister, had tried to justify this situation with Gallic sophistication: "Our atomic scientists are men of all political views. You cannot control what goes on in their minds. Who knows what a man really means when he tells a girl he loves her?" Last week, Joliot-Curie left no doubt in anybody's mind about what he meant. At a Communist Party meeting he declared that he would not collaborate with the U.S. on atomic-energy matters. Said he -"We Communists know that the Soviet Union will not be the first...
Published in 1945, the first half of The Outlander won a Canadian literary award, won another when it was published in France. The Outlander makes no pretense to literary importance. But Madame Guevremont, 53, mother of four children, writes about her paysans and their river farms with calm. Gallic simplicity. Although her awkwardly woven novel has many literary holes, they let in a great deal of the human light that better craftsmen often block...
...Happy Time (by Samuel Taylor; based on Robert Fontaine's book; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) wheels into position another of the aggressively picturesque families that enjoy great popularity on Broadway. The Bonnards, headed by jaunty, Gallic grandpere (Edgar Stehli), are French-Canadians living in Ottawa in the early 19205. There are grandpère's three sons-a "crazy violinist" (Claude Dauphin), a round-the-clock tosspot (Kurt Kasznar), and a round-the-town ladies' man (Richard Hart); his often disapproving Scottish-Presbyterian daughter-in-law (Leora Dana); and his grandson (Johnny Stewart...
...those rather too French concoctions that act as though Gallic were derived from gal, The Happy Time fetches its laughs from souvenir garters, stolen nighties, La Vie Parisienne, grandpa's amorous exertions that require medical aid, grandson's amorous speculations that require parental talks. Lest any of this seem unduly coarse, the characters are made wacky or lovable as well as lecherous, and the story is sprayed with period allusions and pidgin French...