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Symphonie Pastorale (Jean Delannoy) is a subtle, emotionally complex story about a blind orphan (Michele Morgan) and a married Swiss pastor (Pierre Blanchar) who shelters, schools and raises her from a little wild animal into a lovely young woman. The pastor is the last to realize that his fatherly affection is really only a thin disguise for a lover's jealous passion. His wife (Line Noro) is a bitter, knowing onlooker. Just to complicate things, his son (Jean Desailly) also falls in love, but quite openly, with the girl...
...Dakota, a $25,-000 annual income; to Mrs. Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, flamboyant Times-Herald columnist (Eve's Rib), Washington business properties, her black pearl earrings, a sable scarf; to the Red Cross, her Washington home at 15 Dupont Circle; to various charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate; to her granddaughter, Ellen Pearson Arnold, daughter of Columnist Drew Pearson (who had long been trading blows in print with his ex-mother-in-law), nothing, "inasmuch as I have made a substantial gift to her during my lifetime...
Deep Waters (20th Century-Fox) is a very mild movie about a lobsterman (Dana Andrews) who loves the sea, a state social worker (Jean Peters) who hates and fears it, and an orphan (Dean Stockwell) in her charge who gets caught in their crossfire. The boy loves the sea as much as Dana does; Dana is glad to take him on as an apprentice and even wants to adopt him; Jean does everything she can to keep him out of the dreadful trade...
Died. James Edward West, 71, longtime Chief Scout Executive of the Boy Scouts of America (1911-43); of an intestinal disease; in New Rochelle, N.Y. An orphan lamed by tuberculosis, he was a veteran in social work and child-welfare reform when he took over the Scouts. Its membership was then 61,495 ; he helped build it to some...
Urge to Boss. "I became an orphan too early," Markos told a Russian correspondent last week. He was one of seven children. His father, a schoolteacher in the village of Tossia in Asia Minor, where Markos was born 42 years ago, died when Markos was eleven. For the next few years he worked in a grocery, served as a carpenter's apprentice. Markos was 16 at the time of the great trek of 1922. For a year he peddled oranges in Constantinople, ran messages, barbered. He lived mainly on money sent by an uncle in New York...