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...Señor Perón's appeals to the labor unionists had no notable effects. But the Army was worried. Again the young officers forced action on General Avalos...
...se (adapted from Emile Zola's Therese Raquin by Thomas Job; produced by Victor Payne-Jennings & Bernard Klawans) is a dark brown, 19th-Century melodrama of crime and self-punishment. Thérèse Raquin (Eva LeGallienne), married to a stuffy, sickly, mamma's boy Paris milliner, is madly in love with a painter named Laurent (Victor Jory). She eggs Laurent into doing her husband in by way of a boating "accident" on the Seine...
...se has few such spurts. Its classic plot can never be entirely dull, but Playwright Job has made things seem unnecessarily oldfashioned. As sheer melodrama, Thérèse doesn't pump up enough action; otiose characters keep chattering their heads off. It doesn't pack enough suspense: there is no taut atmosphere of guilty tongue-slips and sharp, suspicious glances...
When the civil war broke out in 1936, energetic Señora de Palencia was her country's Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden and Finland - the first woman ever to represent Spain abroad. After the final, desperate retreat, she and her family went to Mexico, whose Government had extended an open-house invitation to all Spanish refugees...
...make life in Paris happier for free-spending U.S. soldiers, France had already set up three G.I. nightclubs (dull and se date but with controlled prices), and ar ranged to give tax rebates on their purchase of such luxury oddments as perfume and cosmetics. Last week, the French Government took new steps to ease G.I. economic pains...