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...commit suicide but was shot by agents of the State detective force to shield men who were high up two years ago and have never been arrested, some sympathy has always attached to the Great Swindler's young widow Arlette. To many a Frenchman her 14 months in prison awaiting trial have seemed unduly severe. She was let out on bail at last (TIME, May 13) but sympathy still enshrouds her. On the advice of Maitre de Moro-Giafferi last week Arlette Stavisky pulled out all the organ stops in a plea for PITY which went to the heart...
Desperately looking back to his prison days, he shouts "Mort aux vaches!" at another policeman. When the policeman pays no attention to him he decides to end his life by jumping into the Seine. Befriended at the last moment by some Paris gamins, he goes off to live with them...
Another feature, called Wings Over Ethiopia, is the only really fascinating travelogue we've ever seen. It covers everything from the debtors' prison in Addis Ababa to a tribe out in the back country where ever wife has five lovers and the babies are ornamented with razor wounds...
After amusing adventures in Spain which afterward provided Goethe with the theme for a play, Beaumarchais was attacked by a jealous nobleman whose mistress he had stolen. His release from prison after this scandalous affair made him a popular hero, since it was considered a triumph over arrogant nobles. His pamphlets and the success of The Barber of Seville made him famed. But he was still poor, and as a secret agent of Louis XVI, authorized to prevent the publication of damaging pamphlets, he printed others, then paid himself for destroying them. He was arrested by Queen Maria Theresa...
...less sensitive spirits were unconscious. When the Revolution actually broke out, he was horrified. Forced to run for his life, he was imprisoned, exiled. The only time he ever realized his ambition to mingle on equal terms with the nobility was when he was confined in the same common prison with the very flower...