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Died. Alexandre Georges Pierre (Sacha) Guitry, 72, prolific writer-actor-director-producer of plays and films; after long illness; in Paris. Born in St. Petersburg, where his actor father, Lucien Guitry, was on tour, impudent, versatile Sacha roughed his way through eleven French schools ("I knew all the dates in French history, but, unhappily, not what happened on them"), turned out his first hit comedy at 19, went on to write more than 130 plays, ranging from semiserious portrayals of great men (Pasteur, Mozart) to whipped-cream farces (L'Illusionniste), in the '30s added films (The Story...
...bachot, be abolished. With that, the Paris press erupted. Former Education Minister André Marie declared that despite its "injustices," the bachot should stay. Onetime Boxing Champion Georges Carpentier bluntly announced: "I am against the baccalauréat." Actor Jean-Louis Barrault said, "I adore it," but Actor Sacha Guitry, who spent six terms in one form, snorted: "Tellme, what good would the bachot have done Rodin...
...Gold-Plated Cadillac. Sacha Wolanow's past is just as mysterious as the "friends" he keeps talking about. He says he was born in Poland 40 years ago, migrated at the age of twelve, first to Strasbourg, then Paris, where he claims to have made a fortune in the textile market by the time he was 20: "I don't just spend my money. I sneak my money to England, and there I buy gold bars. In 1938 I got enough gold. When Hitler started strutting around. I, Sacha, marched out." Somehow...
...Very Simple." Where does Los Angeles' mystery man get all the money? No one knows. Los Angeles' better Business Bureau and California's state corporation licensing agency have both investigated Sacha Wolanow, given him a clean bill of health. He talks about "rich friends" in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Hong Kong and Formosa who want to invest their money in the U.S. "I got the cash," he says. "What for I want to explain? I got friends . . . who are thinking of the future. No one knows what gives. So these people get their money...
Last month, for example, Wolanow bought the Edgemont Manor in Los Angeles for $445,000, paying a little less than half in cash, the rest with a 5% mortgage. Upkeep runs $42,600 a year and gross income $84,000. The income would be taxable except that Sacha can deduct his depreciations, e.g., 5% yearly of the building valued at $250,000, and 20% on the furniture valued at $150,000. The total yearly depreciation adds up to $42,500, every penny of it deductible from income and all taxfree. After a few years, when the furniture is depreciated...