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...young girls, exquisitely suggestible, divide as the pair has divided, some du cote de Mlle. Julie, the others devoted to Mlle. Cara-all innocently, giddily suspended in the nameless tension of the emotional contest. As it fills every room and scene with the breath of girls in the bud, with an air of girlish whispers, forbidden perfume and muffled laughter. Pit of Loneliness falls nothing short of magic...
Olivia herself soon succumbs to the spell of Mlle. Julie. The woman spreads her web for the girl, but even as Olivia is drawn closer, the audience begins to understand how Julie is caught in her own net no less cruelly than her victims are. She is a woman of spirit and of heart, a gifted teacher who desperately fights her own inclinations. The picture is never crass and only once or twice comes close to being explicit...
Scotch & Democracy. Mlle. de Beauvoir did not like the taste of whisky, but at one point she drank Scotch until 3 in the morning "because Scotch is the key to America." She was astonished at the "sudden warmth and cordial simplicity" of Americans, and "American generosity" left her "feeling ashamed." In fact, she liked Americans so much that she wrote: "How I regretted that I could not feel more generously towards a country where the reign of man asserts itself so bravely...
...string, "the atmosphere was so charged with morality that one might have been in church." She also smoked marijuana in a New York hotel apartment with a group of initiates. One dark woman had an abandoned look and tears in her eyes, and kept saying she was "madly happy." Mlle. de Beauvoir smoked three cigarettes in a row. The taste "was sharp and none too agreeable." Longing for the happiness of the dark woman, she smoked away, but nothing happened. She simply went away with a burning throat...
...French film with English dialogue dubbed in, "Fabiola" stars Michele Morgan, Michel Simon, and Henri Vidal. Mlle. Morgan has a terrible part and does little to improve on it. She walks sultrily through most of the script and only rarely rises even to the level of hamming...