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...intellectual, France yields to no nation, but its treatment of its universities is something else again. Last week the French were pondering the implications of a wave of protest marches and demonstrations that swept through every university town. There was no violence, but, warned Chemistry Professor Charles Prevost in Paris: "This is our last peaceful demonstration. The next time we will go on strike." Among the universities' major complaints...
...Though primarily a teachers' college, graduates do desert from the teaching profession," he said. The Ecole thus claims renowned representatives in diverse fields, Seznec added, naming Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Prevost, Jules Romains, and Jean Giraudoux...
...Montreal Superior Court judge ruled that testimony may not be accepted from a witness who does not believe in heaven or hell. Judge Claude Prevost refused to allow the plaintiff in a damage action to give evidence under oath, because she belongs to La Mission de L'Esprit Saint, a Protestant sect which does not believe in reward or punishment after death...
Beaudine learned his trade in the silent days with such oldtimers as Marie Prevost and Ben Turpin. Says he: "We'd write 'em, shoot 'em and print 'em in a week." Nowadays, most Hollywood directors are apt to shoot one scene scores of times; but a lot of TV programs have happily reversed progress and gone back to the old slapdash days. Today, Beaudine has a budget of $25,000 a film, and it costs $10,000 a day to shoot. Beaudine seldom takes more than 2½ days to get a film...
...budget cuts referred to were ordered last winter by the Prevost's Office, which presented similar economy schedules to other departments of the University. The exact cut that Gropius' department was asked to make is not known, but it is understood that the companion department of regional planning had its budget halved...