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...Enfants du Paradis (Pathé-Tricolore) is the most ambitious, most expensive (about 60,000,000 francs) and longest (just under three hours) movie the French have thus far turned out (TIME, March 19, 1945). It is also probably the Frenchest. In production for three years and three months, most of the time during the German occupation, the film crackles with an undiluted Gallicism that is its most winning characteristic...
Attempting-and persisting in-production of such a pretentious movie, while the Nazis strutted through Pathé's Joinville studio, was the amazing accomplishment of France's smoothest movie team: small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and tousled Writer Jacques Preévert (Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour se Léve). U.S. moviegoers, unaccustomed to concentrated mixtures of sex, cynicism and murky symbolism, may enjoy the picture's sharply witty individual scenes and wonder what they all add up to. The overall theme might boil down to this: "Life is a tragicomedy, whether viewed from...
...Years Between--At the Exeter Street Theatre. This is the latest production of British film mogul J. Arthur Rank, but it has very few of the usual attributes of English pictures. Written by Daphne du Maurier, it concerns an R.A.F. captain who is presumed dead in Europe for four years, then returns in Enoch Arden fashion to friends and family. The story is told haltingly and with an overdose of sentiment, but Michael Redgrave does a fine acting job. The co-feature, Russia On Parade, is a one-hour bore about Russian "sports"-lovers...
...general method, as in most syntheses, was to break down natural penicillin-G into simpler compounds which could be made artificially, then try to make these combine into penicillin. Dr. du Vigneaud and his associates started (as others had before them) with two decomposition products-dextro-penicilla-mine hydrochloride and 2-benzyl-4-meth-oxymethylene-5(4)-oxazolone. Over & over again they made them combine under different conditions...
Cheaper & Better? Dr. du Vigneaud does not claim that this process can compete economically at present with the vats of slimy blue-green mold which produce natural penicillin. But he points out that synthetic methods usually become more efficient with practice and as they are better understood. Eventually, synthetic penicillin may be cheap enough to treat the poorest patient...