Word: leclair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Harold Leclair Ickes, 77, self-styled "Old Curmudgeon," longtime New Deal hatchet man and Franklin D. Roosevelt's only Secretary of the Interior (1933-46); of complications from arthritis; in Washington, D.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Barbara Sorenson and Russell Ames then played another period piece, Leclair's Violin-Harpsichord Sonata, marred by poor balance between the instruments, Miss Sorenson's technique is excellent, but her very rich tone was not at all suited to the delicate quality of the music...
Unfortunately, the film's continuity is almost as ragged as its moppets, and just as inclined to make too much of a good thing. But Director Robert Varnay knows how to cut loose a camera for comic effect, and the kids (Jacques Gencel,* Sophie Leclair, De Meulan, et al.) appear human and likable, never consciously cute, and seldom more precocious than a childhood on Montmartre streets might warrant...