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...World War I, reins in its anger but not its wistful passion. Gruff Philippe Noiret plays a French officer assigned to choose the corpse that will serve as the nation's Unknown Soldier. As he assists two women -- an attractive aristocrat (Sabine Azema) and a young teacher (Pascale Vignal) -- in locating their men, he realizes that there are many casualties on the scarred battlefields. They ) include those searching and mourning for their loved ones. At the end, Noiret sends a poignant love letter to Azema; the experience has made them a couple, perfectly matched but sadly unfulfilled. Tavernier, an ebullient...
Italy's 15 million fumetti fans-readers of the photographic romance magazines that take their name from the dialogue balloons-usually go for soap-opera plots. But last winter a Milan fumetto entrepreneur, Pino Vignal, scored a modest inaugural success -80,000 copies-with a fumetto magazine based on the Bible...
Hailed at first as a way to bring the Bible closer to the people, Vignal's La Bibbia soon encountered more trials than Job. The Italian Rabbinical Council denounced La Bibbia as "sacrilege"; Milan's Roman Catholic Cardinal Montini withdrew the nihil obstat of the church. Sales slumped, and ugly rumors grew that Vignal's crew of actors, who posed for the crude Biblical scenes, lived private lives of less than Biblical probity...
Last week Milan cops arrested Vignal, unmasked him as one Giuseppe Tosini, well known to Roman law authorities as a swindler, cigarette smuggler, drunk and vagrant wanted on four counts. La Bibbia's fate-Tosini had two years worth of Scripture scripts-was left in doubt. To get the public and the Bible closer together, said Monsignor Enrico Galbiati, Milan's Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censor, it will be necessary to bring the public level up rather than drag the Bible down...
...work, Monte Carlo the scene, Composer Joseph Redding, Poet Templeton Crocker (both of California) the Americans. In the Monte Carlo Opera House, which is not large, sat Mrs. Clans A. Spreckels of San Francisco, Lily Langtry, Yvonne-Printemps, the Duke of Connaught, the Count and Countess Vignal, Jean de Reszke, Lady Waterlow, Princess Radziwill and some 400 others. They listened to a score which is modern without eccentricity, melodious without stickiness, followed the poetic story of a Chinese beauty damned for loving too well, beheld scenes that were "lavish," "fascinating...