Word: marias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reader misunderstand TIME'S reference to "routine singers," by which was meant members of the ensemble, who are paid $85 a week minimum. Leading performers in San Carlo receive $250 to $500 a week, while guest stars have been paid as high as $1,200 a performance (Maria Jeritza...
Slightly cross-eyed youngest-son Romano Mussolini was at school, tricked out in the sissy Italian variant of an Eton collar (see cut). His little sister Anna Maria, the first child of the Dictator to bear "a good Catholic name," pursued her studies in the same class and both were cared for by fat, completely self-effacing Donna Rachele Mussolini who is her husband's idea of the perfect Italian wife. Above suspicion, she dwells most of the time in northern Italy, visited by her Caesar in a spirit of duty, which gives way at times to happy comradeship...
Madeleine Renaud, member of the Comédie Franç, whose performance in Maria Chapdelaine (TIME, Oct. 7) brought her to the attention of U. S. cinemaddicts, was responsible for the sensible suggestion that the adults in La Maternelle should wear no makeup. Otherwise, credit for dialog, direction and, to a large extent, photography goes to Jean Benoit-Lévy, who adapted the picture from Léon Frapié's novel. Son of a toy manufacturer, bespectacled, 47, Director Benoit-Lévy, whose Itto, dealing with Moroccan revolution, is the current cinema sensation in France, selected...
...this picture is doubtless due partly to the fact that Director Julien Duvivier made most of it on location. He took a cast of Paris actors to northern Quebec last year, used as many natives as possible for crowd scenes and bits. First shown in Paris last winter, Maria Chapdelaine promptly won the Grand Prix du Cinema Français. More noteworthy is the fact that it has been even more successful in Germany, where the critic of the Berliner Volks-Zeitimg was less enthusiastic than his colleagues when he wrote: "It is the greatest work of the French cinema...
...shown in the U. S., Maria Chapdelaine has English subtitles...