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...Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry; TIME...
...sighed. He would resort to his perennial remedy for his perennial nostalgia. Tonight he would wander up to the Geographic Institute and see Sacha Guitry in "Perles de la Couronne." He would pretend he was in his little "theatre du quartier." He would sit back in the beguiling darkness and, full of the "light sane joy of life," he would wink knowingly at some bespectacled Radcliffe girl...
...Story of a Cheat (Sacha Guitry; TIME...
...poor, the narrator might wish to become her accomplice in a little genteel safecracking. "Countess," says the narrator, "confide in me no longer. My new calling protects me from all temptation. I am a private detective.") Written, adapted, directed, spoken and in large part acted by Paris' famed Sacha Guitry, told with no other sound but the forlornly witty monotone of the narrator, The Story of a Cheat is a neat, simple and wholly successful cinematic experiment. Made in Paris 18 months ago, awarded prizes all over Europe since then, its U. S. showing was delayed by price difficulties...
...Guitry fancy that the pearls were originally seven. In telling how their number was reduced to four, Sacha Guitry puts on the greatest parade of kings, ministers and great ladies ever assembled on stage or screen. He himself plays Francis I of France and Napoleon III. His wife, Jacqueline Delubac, is Mary Queen of Scots and the Empress Josephine. Of the rest Veteran Actor Lyn Harding's Henry VIII is brief but good, Actor Ermete Zacconi's Clement VII is great...