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...PROVERB AND OTHER STORIES (287 pp.) -Marcel Aymé-Atheneum...
This scatter-shot anthology includes some hastily-written and unincisive editorials, a copy of an address on America by Carey McWilliams, editor of The Nation, and two finely-wrought and dull poems reprinted from the Sewanee Review. Gabriel Marcel, whom I admire very much, has a reprinted and astoundingly short discourse on the technical and the sacred in modern civilization, a selection whose mixture of brevity and pretentiousness reminded me of the one-page Great Thinker articles Vanity Fair used to run--Gide on Art and Mass Myths in twelve one-sentence paragraphs. There is a reminiscence of Bernard Berenson...
Divorce investigates with wry delight how feelings are ground small in the legal machinery. A lawyer has the best line: "But you have to have grounds for divorce! Drugs, drink, television . . ." The Single Woman (written by Marcel Aymé) describes with sly wit a major calamity in the career of a professional polygamist: he falls in love...
...Marcel Pagnol's classic trilogy (1932-33) is something unusual in any medium, but most unusual for the screen: it is a pure, self-justifying work of art. Marius, Fanny,and Cesar run a total of six hours, but are normally shown, as at the Telelix, one at a time. It depends, therefore, wholly on whether you can sit still for two hours and relax...
TELEPIX: The latter two-thirds of Marcel Pagnol's epic trilogy of the 1930's is currently if all too briefly on view. FANNY will run through March 8. CESAR (which starts the 9th) will run till March 15. In toto, these are three of the funniest pictures ever made; Raimu, the French Charlie Chaplin, excels in what in retrospect must be called his greatest role. Your last chance in seven years. Evenings...