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...Arrivée à New York," currently playing to sellout audiences at Paris' Gaité Montparnasse theater, is based on Céline's classic 1932 novel "Voyage au Bout de la Nuit." Wearing a worn jacket and a grey scarf, Luchini emerges onto a nearly empty stage. He peers into the distance with his round hazel eyes and, for the next 80 minutes, holds the audience spellbound with the first-person narrative of a young Frenchman's voyage to America on the eve of the Depression. He takes Céline's persona from the scary, impersonal streets...
...only the affair that grieves the wronged wife, it is the businessman's lack of enterprise. "Everyone cheats with their secretaries," she wails. "I expected something better from my husband!" But beneath the holy acrimony are wounding truths. Successful Sam is no longer struggling; he wants the arrivé's most inaccessible prize: a destination. His plaint, "I just want to do it all over again," is a caricatured truth on the verge of tragedy. But, as always, Simon pulls back when the laughter stops. His comic mask seems to hide not wisdom but embarrassment...
...Watching. The new marketing moves, Gillette feels, will once more give earnings that old smooth feeling. Even so, it warily watches Wilkinson, which now sells in 50 countries (v. Gillette's more than 100) and quietly slipped into France recently with low-key ads that announced: "Elle est arrivée-the Wilkinson Super Sword." In both France and Italy, Gillette produces lower-priced brands similar to Seven O'Clock that will be converted to stainless if the war heats up. Meanwhile, it receives royalties regularly from Wilkinson, whose blades and bustling business are based...
...program that startled Montreal had been announced in the press with the title, "If Canada Should Become Communist." For young (29) Director Jean Bradley, who had made his radio debut only six weeks before, it was the high-water mark in his series, C'est arrivé demain (It happened tomorrow...
...jour de gloire est arriv...