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...plot of Juniper and the Pagans is, admittedly, and old bromide. In John Patrick's play, a consistently unsuccessful priest named Brother Juniper comes with his niece Rosita to Santiago de Gante, a Mexican village devoid of faith. At first scorned by the populace, Juniper restores the Catholic Church by wresting the town's people's patron saint, a chrome-plated cowboy called Santiago, from the evil General Braga, who runs a resort for the "canape-eaters" where a monastery once stood. Rosita, meanwhile, falls in love with Pepe, the local atheist, and accepts him when he finally sees...
Space-toy sales this year are sparked by new touches of realism. Explains Remco Industries President Saul Robbins: "Instead of the old Buck Rogers fantasy of flapping from one planet to another with a vaporizing gun, we're emphasizing land-based space. Children have to have something they can understand. Outer space is too futuresque for them." To duplicate the thrill of a rocket launching, Louis Marx & Co., world's largest toymaker, is offering a Cape Canaveral Missile Base set (list price: $7.98), with a phonograph record of actual launching countdowns. Ideal's Electronic Fighter Jet (list...
...old reliables there are also new wrinkles, e.g., toy guns this year have built-in whine and ricochet sounds. For kids who have almost everything, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus has a $2,200 gas-engine-powered passenger train...
...core of this cruel, powerful picture from France, in which the New Wave of cinematic creation matches the high-water mark established by Black Orpheus (TIME, Nov. 16). Like that film, The 400 Blows (Les Quatre Cents Coups) is the work of an unknown: a 27-year-old cinema critic named Francois Truffaut, who made the film for only $110,000. Last May the picture won him the Cannes Film Festival's award for the year's best direction, and it is expected to make about...
Director Truffaut, who also wrote the script with Marcel Moussy, tells a story that derives from his own childhood experiences in a reform school. His hero is a French schoolboy (Jean-Pierre Léaud), about twelve years old, who lives with his mother and father in a Paris tenement. Actually, the boy's father is just a man his mother married when she found herself pregnant-a nice, easygoing nobody who brings home a steady salary and doesn't ask too many questions. The mother herself is no better than she should be: a pretty, shallow blonde...