France panorama. [No. 69/52]

Description: French cinemagazine items including: 1. Modern city planning - a bird’s eye-view of new trends in France’s housing developments. 2. The big problem of youth - old and new methods of checking and testing the physical and psychological aptitudes of France’s recruits. Visit to Vincennes’ new “Selection Center No. 1”. 3. Today’s theatre - in Paris, the old Sarah Bernhardt Theatre is replaced by the “ultra-modern” City Theatre run by Jean Mercure. 4. Ushering out the old year: Christmas at the Palais de l’Elysee. Yuletide Paris Circus Gala.