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...Schlamme in Concert (M-G-M). In a voice fresh as a sea breeze, Viennese-born Singer Schlamme conducts a folk tour mostly of Europe, avoiding the more familiar stops. Among her wistful best: The Praeties They Are Small, about the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, and that Weill-Brecht triumph of despair, Surabaya Johnny...
...each scene is projected on a screen from slides (a Ia Chaplin), and poor old Maggie Ziskind, cast as the Widow Leosadia Begbick, a saloon-keeping trollop, has to bundle up in ratty Lotte Lenya togs and belt out a couple of those sour songs that were Mrs. Weill's stock-in-trade. (The words for most of these songs are by Mr. Bentley, the music--as Wall-ish as a composer of Sing Musel can make it--by Mr. Joseph Raposo...
...prevent unwanted pregnancies aroused the conscience of her fellow doctors. France's leading Protestant theologian, Pastor Marc Boegner, backed her; so did Authors Georges Duhamel and Gabriel Marcel. In their wake came scores of newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV" programs. France at last awoke to Dr. Weill-Halle's crusade...
Happy Motherhood. Now a widow of 44, svelte and blonde and the mother of three. Dr. Weill-Halle has seen her volunteer movement, named Maternité Heureuse (Happy Motherhood), shoot up overnight into a major national organization, the French Movement for Family Planning. In Paris 15 physicians are already giving advice on contraception to their private patients. Even the staid French Association of Women Doctors has come around to demanding repeal...
...Wanted Child Is a Happy Child.'' Frenchwomen filled the clinic. Its 21 volunteer doctors can legally give only information and advice; but, increasingly, doctors are risking their professional careers to write prescriptions for female contraceptives, which still can be filled only outside France. Next step in Dr. Weill-Halle's crusade: a birth-control information center in Paris, soon to be followed by centers in each of France's major cities...