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...Actor Stephen Crane and France's No. 1 pin-up girl, has no hesitation about climbing in & out of her filmy clothes for the greater glory of Technicolor. Playing the skittish wife of a Napoleonic general occupying a northern Italian town in Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie, busty Martine bounces about in a low-cut bodice, splashes nudely in a shell-shaped bathtub, flits from moonlit gardens to candlelit bedrooms in a minimum of ninon...
Among Martine's previewers was a church group who reported to Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, archbishop of Lyon. Wrote the cardinal in his religious weekly: "The lowly and licentious film entitled Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie . . . is a scandalous display of vice." On church doors throughout France Caroline Chérie got a five rating on the Index of forbidden films: to be seen neither by adults nor children. Said Martine: "I'm flabbergasted! And what do they think about Mary Magdalene?" Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery...
...Niort (pop. 29,068) in southwestern France, Caroline Chérie ran into the Abbé Francis Ferrier. Rallying parents' associations, parochial-school pupils, and politicians, the abbe demanded that Mayor Felix Lelant prevent the film from being shown. The mayor thought hard, decided that he might prohibit the film on the grounds that it was a "provocation to riot," and got the municipal council so to rule. That night pro-Carolinians chalked the walls of Niort with the slogan: "Liberate Caroline." The anti-Carolinians retaliated with: "Caroline go Home...
...threatened the mayor with a suit. He had not protested a few weeks earlier when a bare-breasted film called The Is land of Nude Women had been shown in Niort; why did he protest against Caroline? The mayor admitted that he hadn't seen Caroline Chérie himself. He would talk it over with the municipal council. Weighing the risk of civil suit against church displeasure, the council last week tried to satisfy both groups. They decided to let Caroline Chérie be shown, but the exhibitors should "wait a few months until tempers are calmed...
...sycomore that Zacchaeus climbed to catch a glimpse of Jesus was undoubtedly a fig tree.* The bulrushes that sheltered the infant Moses were almost certainly papyrus. Many plants that appear in the King James Version never grew in Palestine. Rye, for instance, is a cold-climate crop. The "rie" of the Bible is probably spelt, a primitive relative of wheat...