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...film's characters run the social gamut from the count to the streetwalker, but stick to the same single track. The episodes vary in length, mood and quality. The longest and best, strung together midway in the film, shine with a brilliance that the rest of the movie cannot match. These catch the essence of three classic situations: the willing maid (Simone Simon) and the nervously eager master (Daniel Gelin); the master and the other man's wife (Danielle Darrieux) who wants to be coaxed into infidelity; the faithless wife inciting and lulling the suspicion of her sanctimonious...
Last week, on the day before the scheduled vote, officers flocked to Rio from all over Brazil. Commies strung wires into the high-ceilinged hall of the Club Militar, prepared to broadcast their last-minute speeches by loudspeaker into the streets below. That evening the War Minister was summoned by President Vargas. After an hour's conference, Estillac Leal went straight to the club, announced that he was resuming the presidency and-to permit "a cooling-off of passions"-postponed the referendum for 30 days...
...Ouimet was not going to play even once around: all he intended to do was to hit this one ceremonial drive. Scotland's Willie Auchter-lonie, who won the British Open in 1893, teed up the ball. The town clock tolled eight as Ouimet took his stance. Strung out in front of the tee, at various flattering-and unflattering-distances, were the St. Andrews caddies...
...during the choosing of the cabinet, up & coming Pierre Chevallier, 42, parliamentary leader of Pleven's own party, was repeatedly called to the telephone. Each time it was his wife. Yvonne, high-strung, green-eyed and 38, wanted him to come right home. He tried to tell her that big things were in the air; he was about to get his first cabinet job: Secretary of State for Technical Training, Youth and Sports. Yvonne was not impressed...
...Allan Pinkerton, head of a small Chicago detective agency that was already using such new methods as infiltrating bandit gangs and keeping an elaborate file of criminal information. Soon the Pinkertons had all the outlaw Renos behind bars. While three of them were awaiting trial, a mob of vigilantes strung them...