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...Stavisky's life in the most necessary way. The center of sympathy in the film is Baron Raoul (Charles Boyer), an aristocrat whose purpose in life has been to dissipate a fabulous century-old fortune. "It was very satisfying," he says of this experience. He is old now, and penniless, with only his courtliness and wry smile left, but he defends his dead friend Stavisky before the Parliamentary inquiry much as Talleyrand might have defended himself before a revolutionary tribunal: you didn't know what it was like to live, he testifies, if you hadn't lived in Stavisky...
...Independence, she came from a patrician colonial family, kin of the Roosevelts and the Van Cortlandts. A pretty, vivacious girl, at 19 she married William Seton, 25, son of a wealthy importer. On a trip to Italy in 1803, young Seton died of tuberculosis, leaving his wife nearly penniless and with five children to support. Friends in Italy talked to her about Catholicism, and in 1805, upon her return to the U.S., she shocked her Episcopal family and friends by becoming a Roman Catholic...
...pages. Doubleday. $4.95. Both by Joan Aiken. The author of that incomparable melodrama The Wolves of Willoughby Chase has two remarkably different books out this year, both splendid. Midnight Is a Place is a savage yet romantic tale about what befalls a boy and girl, suddenly homeless and penniless, in a terrifyingly real and at the same time satisfyingly imaginary industrial city in 19th century Britain. This smoke-filled place is appropriately called Blastburn. Among other chores for survival, the girl collects cigar butts from gutters to salvage the tobacco for resale, while the boy stays alive scrounging for junk...
LUIGI BARZINI, Italian author: Three Italian leaders, fused into one man, could be useful today. The greatest is Julius Caesar, penniless patrician, demagogue, traitor to his class, brilliant lawyer, writer, invincible general, creator of an empire. After him, Lorenzo de' Medici, banker, merchant, poet, who ruled Florence with a firm hand. He invented the balance of power to keep the quarrelsome Italian states at peace. Then Camillo Benso di Cavour, farmer, financier, journalist, businessman, who turned tiny Sardinia into the kingdom of Italy in a matter of months...
...term as an interim appointee. Then, in 1893, the U.S. went back on the gold standard; the price of silver, which had been supported by the Government, plummeted. In the depression that ensued, Tabor went broke even faster than he had made it rich. Five years later he died, penniless, but adjuring his wife: "Never sell the Matchless, Baby. When silver comes back, it will make millions...