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...group of undergraduates are adapting original Russian folk songs to accompany the book which was written by J. Jeremy Johnston '61. Charles M. Castleman '61 and John Austen '61 are organizing an orchestra which will be directed by Andrew Schaence '62. John B. Prizer '61 and Marcel Ugels '61 are producing Drumbeats, with Mark J. Mirsky acting as director...
Irwin Shaw has taken Patate from the French of Marcel Achard, and he would be well advised to put it back. As a laugh show, this "New Comedy" suffers from a paucity of laughs. And since the script is not a gimmick adorned by gags, in the fashion of most American comedies, but a closely plotted dramatic whole, there seems very little possibility of its being rewritten and rescued by skillful gagsmithing...
...French army's soul-destroying trial by fire in Algeria there has so far emerged one superlatively good combat commander, a 42-year-old ex-bank clerk from Toul named Marcel Bigeard (TIME. April 28). So notable is Colonel Bigeard's tactical genius and so successful his Spartan training methods that for three years, whenever French troops scored one of their rare clearcut victories over the Algerian rebels, French newspaper readers automatically looked for the name of his 3rd Colonial Paratroop Regiment. Last week, to their confusion, Frenchmen learned that there was no longer any place in Algeria...
Judicial Nod. In Fribourg, Switzerland, Judge Germain Kolly was fined 110 Swiss francs after Marcel Peiry and three associates-convicted of theft-asked for and got a new trial when they pointed out that the judge had slept through part of the proceedings...
...Marcel Cardinal, an ex-commando captain, began underwater exploration out of curiosity, rapidly became an addict. He took to carrying a sketchbook with him to the Cannes beach, would plunge into the deep blue sea off the Côte d'Azur, then flipper to the surface to jot down notes. Worked up first in watercolor and finally in oils, his paintings evoke the mysterious transparency of undersea scenes where objects-a ship's hull, rock outcropping-loom more evocatively than their above-the-surface counterparts...