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...MEMORY SERVES-Sacha Guitry- Doubleday, Doran ($3). By the time Sacha Guitry was five years old he had become accustomed to the strange passions that periodically seized his father. During a quiet dinner the boy would be startled to observe Lucien Guitry frown fiercely, cry out for no reason such things as, "My lord, you are a nobleman and I am but a commoner, yet I dare tell you that any man who insults a woman is a coward!" Or. with a melting tenderness, the father would stare unseeingly at his son and murmur, "Clementine, I would give my life...
...eight persons jailed for complicity in the eternal ramifications of the Stavisky case (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.), none attracted greater sympathy than Arlette Stavisky, because of her beauty and because few serious students of the case believed that slippery Alexandre ("Sacha") Stavisky was the sort of man to give his dress model wife any inkling of his real business activities. For 14 months she stayed in the women's prison of La Petite Roquette, awaiting trial. From time to time she was hauled out for questioning. Every one of her pleas for release was promptly refused. Last...
...Married. Sacha Guitry, 50, French actor, playwright and producer; and Jacqueline de Lubac, 25, his current leading lady; in Paris. Last November Actor Guitry and Actress Yvonne Printemps were divorced (TIME...
Divorced. Yvonne Printemps, 35, French actress currently performing on Broadway in Noel Coward's Conversation Piece (TIME, Nov. 5); and Sacha Guitry, French actor-playwright; in Paris, on grounds of "reciprocal adultery." Finding both parties guilty, the court granted an impartial decree, canceled Mile Printemps' 6,000-franc monthly allowance. Manhattan's tabloid Daily News gushed editorial approval of this "sensible" ruling, seized a chance to lambaste U. S. divorce laws...
...little "Sacha" Stavisky was not a man to confide in women. No serious student of the case has ever suggested that the girl who was once the best-looking model at Chanel's and who loyally bore him two children in the face of his impudent infidelities knew anything important about his machinations, except that he was a crook. Yet because she had once had possession of the bundle of check stubs which is the most notorious bit of Stavisky evidence to date she was clapped into La Petite Roquette prison last March, and there she has remained, except...