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...years later, the American High School was started. De Rosay later became its principal, served until it was shut down by World War II. De Rosay spent the war in the U.S., but returned to Paris to open his new school a year ago. It is equipped with such luxuries as an oil furnace, a cafeteria and a swimming pool. Tuition: $25 to $35 a month. Classes and subjects are much the same as in any U.S. school, except that French becomes as important as English: kindergarten children romp around singing French songs, kids in the lower grades give French...
Though the American Community School had to share in all of France's shortages, its first postwar year had not gone badly. Textbooks, chalk and lamp bulbs were hard to get, the electric current was cut off frequently. But fiftyish Headmaster Paul de Rosay was an old hand at the game. He had first gone to France in World War I with a Harvard ambulance unit. In 1923 he opened the first American day school in Paris for the children of U.S. businessmen and diplomats abroad...
This showing of the French film "Portrait of a Woman" based on a screen play by Jacques Feyder affords little satisfaction to the low intellect movie-goer. A quick disposal of plot by Mr. Feyder and the four superb characterizations of a woman by the actress Francoise Rosay provide a drama which maintains interest throughout...
...documentary details of British and French village life-the seining, fishing, pubbing, etc.-are shrewdly observed and handsomely photographed. The backgrounds and bit-players are so excellent, in fact, that the routine Montague-Capulet romance is an intrusion. With the exception of Franchise Rosay, famed French cinemactress (Carnival in Flanders, Portrait of a Woman) whose histrionics are not quite so subtle when she speaks her lines in English, the principal people in this film are less interesting than the fish...
...Garnet de Bal (Marie Bell, Harry Baur, Franchise Rosay, Raimu; TIME, April...