Many of the world's newspapers have taken up with commentary the case of the new "Joan of Arc." As for her lovely story, it began to occupy public opinion when the producer "Otto Preminger" was carrying out a most delicate task — searching for a girl, for a new face, to embody in ideal fashion the great role of "Joan of Arc." He stipulated that she be

In a moment of her weakness and despair

free of those factors which sometimes, and quickly, turn certain professional stage actresses into stars full of confidence in themselves.

Eighteen thousand girls presented themselves for the test for the leading role of the said film, and the producer summoned three thousand from among them; and how quickly his game was exposed — the result was a shrill cry of "A hoax, a hoax!" — for the army of girls swiftly concluded that the whole affair was, at bottom, nothing but publicity for the film in question.

At last, and despite the beautiful, self-assured stars, the role of "Joan of Arc" — over which the stars of the cinema have long competed, and which "Falconetti" and "Ingrid Bergman" had played before on the screen, and many others besides on the stage, which shows its deep effect — was entrusted to the girl "Jean Seberg."

The final choice of "Jean Seberg" to play the role of Joan of Arc was shining proof that in this age of plain facts in which we live, there also exist, at times, beautiful true stories exactly like the entertaining fairy tales — stories that require no

Saint Joan (Jean Seberg)