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Jour de Fête (Fred Orain; Mayer-Kingsley) transplants some Mack Sennett pratfalls to the French provinces. The center of this slapstick is François (Jacques Tati), a sad-faced, gangling, rural postman who looks like a cross between General Charles de Gaulle and oldtime silent Comic Charles Chase. On the annual fair day (jour de fête), François sees a movie about high-speed American postal methods and develops a mania for movement...
...ramshackle bike, leather case flying in the breeze, he whizzes past bicycle road racers and delivers mail down wells, on farmers' pitchforks and in threshing machines-when he is not tangling with wasps, pigs and flagpoles. The wine finally wears off, the fair departs and village and postman go back to a more tranquil tempo. "News," says one of the inhabitants of sleepy Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre philosophically, "is so bad nowadays we certainly can wait a few extra minutes for the letters...
...taxes on land held by the college. Lawson's books are peddled around town for as much as $5 a copy and contributions seem to pour into the university's coffers. In Detroit a Ford worker said he had donated $8,000 to the school; a postman said he gave close to $5,000. Yet Founder Lawson insists that he is a poor man, frequently turns his pockets inside out at meetings, and lives in seclusion away from the school...
...with its shoes off." For its pheasant-under-glass audience, the homey Crier dishes up an oatmeal fare. It treats everybody in Hollywood Hills as if they were small-town neighbors. The Crier reports their most trivial doings at home-and treats Reader Charlie Chaplin the same as his postman-and it pointedly ignores their outside accomplishments. When a subscriber wins an Academy Award, it isn't news for the Crier. But when Reader Irene Dunne traps a skunk in her house, it is. The Crier is a success because it is a slick Hollywood make-believe...
Since the end of World War II, few married men have had to worry about greetings from the draft board. This week, 500,000 of them may start watching for the postman. Awaiting President Truman's signature is a new set of Selective Service regulations which will make married men without children subject to a draft call. Selective Service estimated that about 200,000 will be eligible for induction after all the weeding out, that the first will be in camp before Christmas...