Word: raimu
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...officer, was far more interested in the audience than in the play and turned constantly to face them. This kind of acting is typically high-schoolish. Bright spot in the evening was Aesop, of fable fame, who was played with some of the flavor of the great French comedian Raimu. Except for him the production was mediocre and seemed more a recitation that a serious attempt to capitalize on the analogies of the Cassandra story to the present day. Music for the performance was ably provided by a harpist but the meant-to-be-moving "Hymn to Apollo" fell miserably...
...plot pivots around the marital woes of a village baker whose wife seeks romance in elopement, and finally finds it in the arms of her forgiving husband. Raimu as the cuckooed villager strikes an unusually happy balance between humor and earnestness, burlesque and drama...
...Garnet de Bal (Marie Bell, Harry Baur, Franchise Rosay, Raimu; TIME, April...
Marie Bell, Raimu, Fernandel, Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur, the greatest cinema actors in France, names that will pack any theatre in Paris, all came to the Fine Arts yesterday in "Un Carnet de Bal," a picture worth seeing if only as an anthology of all that the French screen has to offer. Episodic, rather in the manner of "If I Had A Million," the picture takes a world-weary blonde (Mlle. Bell) in search of ten boys she had known in her youth. She had gone to her first ball, a card dance, when she was sixteen, and each...
...Carnet de Bal (Marie Bell, Harry Baur, Raimu, Franchoise Rosay; TIME, April...