Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast of the film reads something like an index of the modern French stage. It includes, among others, Gerard Philippe, Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gelin, Simone Simon, Anton Walbrook, and Jean-Louis Barrault. All of these actors give fine performances, though two at least stand out from the rest: Walbrook, who plays the sophisticated master of ceremonies, and Barrault, as the poet. Few actors would have enough courage to make a declaration of love while lying on their backs on the floor, and enough talent to make the scene come off. Barrault, however, does. His work and that of Max Ophuls...
...stature of the HDC, and it continued to add to its laurels. The year after he left the group produced The Moon Is a Gong, by John Dos Passos '16, who had written nothing worthy of production during his years as an undergraduate. In 1934 it put on Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine, the same year it presented the American premiere of A Bride for the Unicorn, by Denis Johnston, a noisy and risque comedy putting the story of the Golden Fleece in modern setting...
...Maurine Jacobs, 42, vice president and cashier of Dallas' National Bank of Commerce (total deposits: $15,578,110), became president, thus joined the small group of women bank presidents. She succeeded Jean Baptiste Adoue Jr., former Dallas mayor, who died of a heart attack three weeks ago. In his will Adoue left Banker Jacobs his entire holding of 676 of the bank's 1,500 outstanding shares of stock; previously she had held only 35 shares of her own. A native of Dallas, she graduated from the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Banking, began her banking...
...Died. Jean Schwartz, 78, Hungarian-born oldtime vaudeville pianist and songwriter, who composed Chinatown, My Chinatown (with longtime Partner William Jerome), Al Jolson's Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody, and Hello Central, Give Me No Man's Land; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...after 16 weeks is A Certain Smile (TiME, Aug. 20), a thin quadrangle story about an ever-so-wise teenager, her ever-so-world-weary lover, the lover's all-understanding wife and the girl's rather sappy boy friend. In Harper's Bazaar, witty Playwright Jean Kerr (wife of New York Drama Critic Walter Kerr) gets a lot of certain laughs out of A Certain Smile, in a spoof that expresses the quintessence of Saganism...