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...Time for Flowers (Mort Briskin; RKO Radio) is an addlepated little romp that pits the party line against the romantic line in Behind-the-Iron-Curtairi Czechoslovakia. Viveca Lindfors is an unglamorous Prague secretary who stomps about dressed in what appears to be an old burlap bag, and whose clod of a boy friend woos her with gifts of herring. But soon a handsome comrade (Paul Christian), just returned from attache duty in the United States, shows up and starts to shower her with such capitalistic blessings as nylons, lipstick and champagne. He also offers her a bubble bath...
...Jeune Homme et La Mort a Boston, premiere, is a Jean Cocteau creation based on the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Earthy and passionate, Jean Babilee and Nathalic Philippart conveyed well the brutality, horror, and the final beauty of this modern ballet. The acrobatic elements in the choreography, however, tended to detract from the symbolic force of the legend...
When the smugglers have gone, Johnnie starts to skedaddle home, and accidentally tweaks off the corpse's beard, whereupon he notices a locket slung around the fleshless neck. Inside the locket is a ciphered message that leads, after two murders and a mort of escapes and chases, to a diamond "as big as a pigeon's egg" that lies hidden in the wall of an ancient well in Caris-brooke Castle. Thence away to a fence for such merchandise in The Hague, who cheats poor Johnnie out of his diamond and lands him aboard a brig bound...
...balletomanes have been hearing about, in brief flashes from Paris, since the end of the war. The first flash was that he could leap as no one since Nijinsky. Then came a tale of an astonishing physical feat: in Jean Cocteau's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), Babilée hung by his neck on a gallows for a full minute, with no more extra support than he could get from wrapping one arm around a pillar...
...street two names. Then, just before the start of the first game of the rugby season, six members of the local team went on strike, refusing to play ball in the stadium. "We didn't come here to play politics," explained Center Forward Jean Colombier. "Le sport est mort a Saint-Junien," sobbed a heartbroken referee...