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...equal force and infinitely greater sanity. The writer: Georges Bernanos, a French Catholic layman known to Americans as the author of a fine novel, Star of Satan (TIME, June 17, 1940), and a furious, eyewitness denunciation of the Fascist "Holy War" in Spain, Les Grands Cimetières Sous La Lune (The Vast Graveyards Under the Moon...
...around which his 400 pages are stacked. The rather naive contrast built up between brother Frank, who lets his jazz be diluted with doses of commercialism when he reaches the citadels of fame and fortune, and brother Pete, who goes on playing the so-called righteous stuff for few sous, loses, much of its force with the uninitiated reader who cannot understand all the differences between popular and hot music. Steig, comprehending these distinctions himself cannot recapture them in print...
...original screen play is attributed to Mahatma Kane Jeeves, an obvious pseudonym to those who know that Fields writes his own lines. His own character-a small-town tosspot accidentally given the job of cop at the local bank-is labeled Egbert Sousé (pronounced Soo-zay). His small town is called Lompoc-a coincidence which may cause some embarrassment to citizens of Lompoc, Calif. When Mr. Sousé drinks a pony of straight whiskey, he always demands a water chaser, which he uses as a finger bowl; with each drink he requires a fresh chaser, because "I never like...
Georges Bernanos is a French Catholic Royalist and a writer of furious eloquence. Best known of his novels is The Diary of A Country Priest. Les Grands Cimetieres sous la Lime (A Diary of My Times) was an excoriation of Generalissimo Franco's fascism which has been called "the greatest tract in a hundred years." The Star of Satan, first published in 1926, was awarded the Prix Goncourt. His first novel, it is sometimes spoken of as the fountainhead of the revival of idealism in French literature. In manner as well as in substance it dares extremes of intensity...
...Quand, sous un joug honteux, Ia pensee asservie...