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...Marcel Boussac, French textile tycoon, the one-mile-Houghton Stakes at Newmarket, with his two-year-old colt Auriban, thus becoming the leading money-winner in Britain ($103,716) for the second year...
Producer-director Hans Richter assembled five of his fellow artists and allowed each of them to dream up a separate sequence for the movie. Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Alexander Calder each contributed an idea. Then Richter strung them all together with what--if logic be considered--is the most tenuous of threads. But, logic be damned, say the surrealists. And, in watching the movie, you are apt to accept their premise...
Gabin is excellent as the man-about-town who becomes slowly aware that he is sinking into matrimonial quicksand. Nicole Courcel is completely convincing as the triumphant barmaid. Producer-Director Marcel (Children of Paradise) Carne paces the slight story, from one of Simenon's short novels, a little too slowly, but with a neat blending of decorative scenery and indecorous...
...Marcel Gromaire, heading up the bay on his first trip to the U.S., was bowled over last fall by the Manhattan skyline. He knew, from pictures, what it must look like, but the pictures had not prepared him for the real thing. "Sticking out of the morning mist, it was one of the most lyrical sights I've ever seen...Everything I recognized as familiar had assumed huge, fantastic proportions." He stayed in the U.S. a month, then hurried home to Paris, while his eye was still fresh, to paint his recollections in a series of 20 oils...
Whatever Paris may lack, the outside world assumes it has one thing in abundance: charm. Not so, says one Marcel Ranville, who has found it necessary and profitable to run a charm school in Paris and launch a campaign for greater "amiability." Some weeks ago, the Ministers of Public Health, Education, Commerce & Industry enthusiastically jumped on Ranville's amiability bandwagon, formed an official committee to better "the day to day relationships of the Parisian people." By last week Parisian relationships were just about as sweet as a midinette's smile...