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...Raven," which shares the bill, is a French mystery about a poison-pen campaign that sets a small French village into turmoil. It contains glimpses of some of the nastiest people ever assembled on one movie lot, and that includes the hero, Dr. German, who is played by Pierre Fresnay. The movie's favorite acting device is the pregnant pause, which is woefully overworked. Moviegoers who have seen "The Thirteenth Letter" will find that it is the same movie, scene for scene. They will also find that the American version is just as convincingly acted and considerably easier...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

...mornings a week "for the transaction of Criminal Business." Most of them had come in response to the small white traffic slips they held, each of which warns "Hereof fail not at your peril." Five men who had never received a formal summons sat locked in the jury pen at one side of the bench. And three blue-jacketed ushers stood ready to boost people to that part of the courtroom demanded by procedure...

Author: By Robert E. Herzstein, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 3/14/1951 | See Source »

...Pen in Hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Brickbats & Bouquets | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Physical heroism was once a conspicuous and necessary quality of all Christians. It is becoming so again in many parts of the world, especially in China. In the current issue of the new Roman Catholic quarterly, Worldmission, under the pen name of Gregory Grady, a Jesuit missionary in the Far East tells of the heroism his fellow Catholics are showing in the face of Communist persecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Fortitude | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...criticism hurts Tracq, and sales have been slipping badly anyway. Instead of retaliating by whittling the priest in Satan's arms, Tracq recently laid down his jackknife, took up the pen. Having the best handwriting in town, he landed the honorable post of secretary to the mayor. No one says the mayor's letters lack soul. Meanwhile the priest is organizing whittling classes for the village's few young boys. They will not be taught to carve devils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Down with Devils | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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