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Four in One. Two brothers, Armand and Lucien Roux, both opticians, have spent 17 years at the process, working in their fifth-floor laboratory in a drab building on the Left Bank. Fortnight ago they invited famed Writer-Producer Marcel Pagnol to see some test shots. Greatly excited by what he saw, Pagnol (The Baker's Wife, The Welldigger's Daughter) asked to take some color shots of his own. They turned out so well that he decided to shelve the black-&-white film on Franz Schubert (La Belle Meuniere) which he had just finished, and shoot...
...Marcel Cerdan v. Lavern Roach (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC Television...
...happiest surprise of the show had come toward the end: the last quarter-acre proved that France was now enjoying a tapestry renaissance, sparked by Painter Jean Lurçat (TIME, June 24, 1946); Fellow Artists Raoul Dufy, Marcel Gromaire and Henri Matisse designed many of the new tapestries, and the traditional weavers of Aubusson executed them...
Fanny (French). Marcel Pagnol on unmarried pregnancy, paternal love and the power of money and family. An old one (1937), presumably imported for admirers of the late Raimu. Slow, wordy, subtly complacent, yet often deeply perceptive and moving...
Proust Without Interruption. Not even his time in solitary left him entirely bitter, for he found "that it is far easier to withstand hunger when alone than in the company of others." And he there had the chance "to read all the works of Marcel Proust without interruption. . . . I also read eleven volumes of The Origins of Contemporary France, Dom Leclerq's History of the Revolution, and Rousseau's Confessions, The very length of these works prevents most free men from completing them; in one sense, therefore, I was freer than most." Nor was he forgotten...