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...that world, everybody is passionately working and planning. Pathe is readying Le Bataillon du Ciel, whose real-life hero will be chief of French parachutists, one-armed Colonel Bourgoin. Gaumont plans to have Jean Cocteau direct his own La Belle et la Bête, assisted by ace director Marcel Pagnol. Artist Films is planning productions of Maupassant's Boule de Suif and Dostoevsky's Idiot. In Nice, Jacqueline Audry is directing France's sensational new eight-year-old Conrad in Les Malheurs de Sophie...
...story of the Paris theater in 1848, Les Enfants du Paradis was made by the brilliant team which produced Port of Shadows and Daybreak-small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and weedy, irrepressible Writer Jacques Prevert. Its stars include Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Brasseur, who emerge from four years' darkness as two of the greatest French actors of their generation. According to TIME Correspondent Sherry Mangan, the film "sums up, crowns and finishes off" the great French cinematic tradition "in the way Joyce's Ulysses did for the novel." "It is," cabled Mangan, "the most expensive (some...
BHAGAVADGITA, The Song of God-translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood -Marcel Rodd...
Every now & then, since Marcel Proust's death in 1922, a young American writes urbanely and philosophically about his or her past in long, rhythmic, qualified sentences and is forthwith called "the American Proust." Miss Stafford is the latest to be thus crowned. But while Proust was from birth an accepted member of the decadent Parisian society about which he wrote in Remembrance of Things Past, Miss Stafford's proxy, Sonia Marburg, is rather painfully not a socialite. Sonia is the dreaming, sensitive daughter of a German shoemaker and a Russian chamber maid-as unlikely a person...
...middleweight final, between French Sailor Marcel Cerdan and Technical Sergeant Ralph Burnley of Philadelphia, a Negro, stole last week's" show. Both were pros before they went into the service. The Negro, who is crew chief of a P-51 fighter group, ploughed into the Frenchman with abandon, took Round One. Cerdan's right scored three skull-jarring hits in Round Two, floored the Philadelphian three times for a count of nine. Cerdan took the title on a technical K.O. at the bell...