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FRENCH DRAWINGS by Maurice Serullaz. 232 pages. New York Graphic Society. $37.50. An engaging trip through 19th century France as seen by artists from Prud'hon to Daumier. The book includes three drawings by Novelist Victor Hugo, who painted as fast and furiously as he wrote- leaving behind about 450 pictures when he died. Hugo's riverscape is delicate and brooding, his ample nude is created with a few bold strokes. Other subjects range from classical to genre, and, typically, the plates begin with a love scene and end with a disputation between doctors as death steals away...
...PRUD HOMME...
...Cameron Prud'homme, in the part of the captain, also has his book-inspired troubles. He is inflicted with a Swedish accent which, it must be admitted, was O'Neill's idea. Prud'homme struggles valiantly, and on the whole with success. As for the sailor, George Wallace, he looks as muscular and manly as a musical comedy leading man has to; and he also has a good singing voice, a fact which he demonstrates in Merrill's best song, Look...
...Hepburn). Lizzie is a girl who believes she is "as plain as old shoes," and that no man would want to have her underfoot. Nevertheless, she can't help wanting to be there. "Pride? I ran out of that a long time ago," she tells her father (Cameron Prud'Homme) and two brothers (Lloyd Bridges and Earl Holliman). "I just want to be a woman." They rush into town and, in a hilarious parody of the old John Alden bit, invite the deputy sheriff (Wendell Corey) out to supper. The sheriff lends a helping hand. "You need somethin...
...philosophy, for all The Rainmaker's deluge of it, is not much deeper than a puddle, and the moviegoer can usually slosh ahead without bogging down. Then too, Director Joseph Anthony keeps his actors moving nimbly along. Actor Lancaster does a businesslike job as the rainmaker. Prud'Homme and Holliman are excellent as the father and the younger brother. Actress Hepburn does not always surely suggest the stages in Lizzie's life, as she passes from emotional chrysalis to vivid imaginal maturity, but she holds the eye in scene after scene like a brilliant moth...