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...enter these rooms through the hatchway; the camera hovers overhead like a voyeur, and the four walls vibrate with a new personality. The most fascinating of the four passengers is Pere Jules (Michel Simon), a crusty old naval Caliban who exists totally on a physical level. During one memorable scene he shows the captain's young wife, Juliette (Dita Parle), the souvenirs from his voyages to the South Seas: horns and masks, beads and three satanic cats that jump without warning and perch on Pere Jules' shoulders...
...impossible hour, admittedly, but not devoid of its virtues: H.M. Jones is offering what is probably the last year of his epic Hum 133a (Thought and Literature in the Nineteenth Century) which marshals, among others. Pere Goriot, Wuthering Heights, Sartor Resartus, Bleak House, Faust, and The Red and the Black into a tidy and orderly cultural unity. Professor Myron Gilmore, the hour's other virtue, presents three disunited centuries (roughly, 1300-1600) in an even stiffer course, his History 130: "The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation." Devious Machiavelli and the sainted Thomas More top the reading list...
Died. Pola Gauguin, 77, last survivor of the impassioned postimpressionist's five legitimate children (at least one illegitimate child still lives in Tahiti), better known for a Maugham-correcting biography of his defecting pere (My Father, Paul Gauguin) than for his Scandinavian art criticism, architecture and painting; of a heart attack; in Copenhagen...
Starts Sunday: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, a lesser known and some-what less worthwhile movie, features Huston fils, and was directed by Huston pere. Evenings at 5:15, 7:30, 9:45; Sunday matinee...
...Corbu" began "sniffing out the site," as he puts it, in 1953. He chose a slope to back his monastery against, propped on pillars. Then he listened and took notes while the late Dominican patron of the arts, Pere Couturier, explained the and problems of the Dominican discipline ("Here we walk in double file. Here we prostrate ourselves"). For three years Corbusier and his associates worked over the plans. The result is a rugged interplay of concrete masses and angles-a top example of the architectural style that is sometimes referred to as "the new brutalism...