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...People was the first and best of these films. It is the story of Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a beautiful young Serbian woman who is cursed to turn into a panther whenever she is sexually aroused. Obviously, love is a dangerous thing...
Unfortunately, though, we're in the 1940s, and love is inevitable. Irena meets Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) at the zoo, in front of the panther cage. In love before the blink of an eye, Oliver proposes and they marry, against Irena's better judgement. They have not even gone as far as a simple kiss...
Mellon Faculty Fellow in Comparative Literature Irena G. Gross taught a six-person seminar this fall on cross-cultural perceptions in travel literature, and said she "loved the opportunity to have direct contact with the students...
...eateries serving such traditional French fare as coq au vin, pot-au-feu and gigot. To others a bistro is merely a cafe with quick and simple food, much of it indistinguishable from California cuisine. Symbolic of the confusion is the representation in a new book, American Bistro, by Irena Chalmers and Friends (Contemporary; $35). Cited are Kansas City's high-style American Restaurant and the posh, pricey Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas. Even included is the Ballroom in Manhattan, known for its Spanish tapas. Everything, it seems, is in a name...
Thrust among them is a fictional couple, both, fittingly enough, students of social anthropology. Allan Archibald, a moneyed North Shore Wasp, witnesses the murder of the reporter and on a bet undertakes to write a scholarly paper about the Chicago underworld. Irena Giron, a brilliant but unworldly girl from the Polish ghetto "back of the yards," catastrophically encourages Allan to learn more about the style and ferocity of the syndicate. Organized Crimes is part political satire, part informal history, part rumination on the Depression, part love story between the rich boy poor in spirit and the poor girl rich...