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...Marcel Pagnol (Topaze, The Baker's Wife, Harvest) became the first cinema writer admitted to the august French Academy. At 52, he is a veritable child prodigy among the Academy's ancients. One of the ceremonial questions put to Pagnol, who makes his characters talk like characters: "Can you write French...
...have designed both a moated desert mansion for Movie Director Josef von Sternberg and an elaborate system of low-cost schools and hospitals for Puerto Rico. Neutra's buildings are pondered and imitated (especially in technical details of construction) by architects around the world. Says noted French Architect Marcel Lods in L'Architecture : "[He] is already a classic and . . . will be more so tomorrow. Neutra offers us an infinitely precious message...
...their brave words and eager hands, the twelve had a lot of "mopping up" to do. Paris still had intractable citizens who liked to look at more recognizable pictures. After 5½ years in Manhattan, Painter Marcel Vertes had just returned to Paris to open a show of the pastel, boyish maidens who have long decorated the covers of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and sold Schiaparelli perfume in the U.S. A dozen gendarmes were needed to keep order at Vertes' opening, and all 50 of his agelessly sweet and sexy pictures sold out in a few hours...
Polite, 159-lb. Marcel Cerdan, already 30, never wears himself out training. In wartime Europe, where there was no time for the elaborate kind of training that U.S. fighters indulge in, Marcel's manager would hold up his hands, palms held outward, and let Marcel punch at them. Marcel trained like that when the Germans in occupied France ordered him to fight José Ferrer,* the Spanish champion, in 1942. He knocked out the Spaniard in 82 seconds, shortly afterward turned up in North Africa and joined the Free French navy. Among Marcel Cerdan's 96 victories (against...
With his cut of the gate ($20,000) and six stitches over his left eye, Marcel Cerdan headed back to spend Christmas with his family in Casablanca. He will return next year, for a probable chance at the middleweight title, and some more Yankee dollars...