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...Leroy J. Benoit is an instructor in French, a man who spends much of his time in Sever, many of his hours correcting papers, but he is an instructor who can tell an unbelievable tale of sabotage, of large-scale intrigue, of fifth-column...
Attached to the American Embassy in Paris during the summers of 1936 and 1937 as interpreter, for a while liasion officer between the Embassy in Paris and in Berlin, and several months in the intelligence division of the Paris Embassy, Benoit saw at first hand a great part of what in his own words he describes as the "gigantic behind-the-scenes action which prepared the way for the final debacle, the collapse of France." The story he tells, unbelievable in 1937, seems all too familiar today...
...back as the summer in which Paris was the scene of the great international exposition, Benoit saw Nazi agents actually operating from the German pavilion which then stood on the bank of the Seine. Although their activity was known Benolt claims that the French contented themselves with making heated protests to the German Reich through customary diplomatic channels and accepted as satisfactory the avowed reprimands dispensed by the Berlin government...
...contain two separate climaxes, the film nevertheless succeeds by virtue of the sheer beauty of the dance, the genuine character of the dancing school atmosphere, and the well-chosen background music. Janine Charrat, as the child ballerina, has been carefully directed with a view to psychological complications by Jean Benoit-Levy, and as a result her performance in more convincing than that of her adult co-stars. Particularly colorless is Yvette Chauvire, for whose love the child arranges the crippling of Mia Slovenska in the midst of her performance of "The Dying Swan." As entertainment, the film has novelty...
Ballerina (Pathe Joinville-Cinatlantica). Brilliant cinema treatment by French Director Jean Benoit-Levy (La Maternelle) of La Mart du Cygne, Paul Morand's story about the backstage life of apprentice ballet dancers...