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Waiting Catastrophe. "The Rally of the French People must be rallied," declared General de Gaulle grandly, as he welcomed 800 R.P.F. national councilors to the hot convention hall in the Parisian suburb of St. Maur. He asked them to approve a censure resolution, requiring all members to vote the party line on crucial tests in the Assembly or be kicked out of the party...
...Humanité the Parisian Communist newspaper, beat the drums. Go on strike! it urged the faithful, protest the jailing of Jacques Duclos! And incidentally, wheedled L'Humanité protest the jailing of the paper's own Editor Andre Stil! The big day was Wednesday, designated for a one-day strike of the Red-led C.G.T. (Confederation Generate du Travail), which used to have 6,000,000 members but now has only a third as many. Expecting an exemplary show of violence, L'Huma published medical advice on what to do for riot injuries, e.g., bleeding from...
...liveliest figures in Parisian art circles these days is an Armenian painter named Krikor Bedikian, who rejects all the artistic isms of contemporary Paris in favor of a strong, realistic style of his own. His guiding rule is one that he believes also guided the men of the Italian Renaissance: "Paint so that even illiterates will understand...
Rags to Bitchery. Lamiel was to begin her life in an orphanage, become a Parisian courtesan, marry a duke, and die the mistress of a robber-chief. From autumn 1839 to spring 1842 Stendhal sketched the outline of her progress from rags to riches. He described her adoption by a childless couple, her entry as a servant-companion into the household of a duchess, her initiation into the facts of upper-class life, i.e., mingled boredom, bitchery, fear and arrogance. He did portraits of varying completeness of the men in her life, ranging from a Machiavellian, hunchbacked doctor...
This French pastry has been served up with a rich helping of Technicolored spectacle as well as a good bit of overly rich dialogue and direction. The action includes a number of chases on horseback and a spectacular dueling scene in a candlelit Parisian theater, with Ferrer and Granger bounding from balcony boxes to backstage. Ferrer makes a smartly menacing Marquis, and Granger is a fine, swashbuckling figure, although he suggests little of that "gift of laughter" of which Sabatini wrote. Also on hand, in a minor role: Lewis Stone, now 72, who played the villainous Marquis to Ramon Novarro...