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Marlon Brando as Napoleon (above) reads to his court a proclamation divorcing himself from the proud, beautiful paramour whose heart he boldly besieged and ruthlessly broke. . . because she did not give him a son. Below, left young Napoleon during his early revolu- tionary days in Marseilles when he dreamed of building an empire. . .and made love to Desiree whom he jilted to marry Josephine. “ DESIREE ” GREAT BOOK DESTINED TO BE EVEN GREATER AS SCREEN PLAY "Desiree,” the heretofore undisclosed story of Napoleon and his sceret woman of desire, for eight months ranked No. 1 among the best-selling novels. Concededly one of the most astonishingly revealing love stories of any era, this story by Annemarie Selinko becomes even greater as a CinemaScope super-production that Julian Blau- stein produced and Henry Koster directed. Because the story embraces so many color- ful and historic characters, selecting the players to bring them to screen life was no simple task, but in the end, these were chosen: Jean Simmons in the title role, Marlon Brando as Napdeon, Merle Oberon as the beautiful Josephine, Michael Rennie as the statesman Bemadotte and Cameron Mitchell as Napoleon’s brother. But, in "Desiree,” photographed by Milton Krasner and whose screenplay was written by Daniel Taradash, there are more than two scores of principal roles and a supporting cast of hundreds. It is truly the "real story” behind Napoleon who, in the end, had to concede to the woman he jilted that his fantastic dream of empire had been blasted. Costing about $4,500,000 to produce, "Desiree” was custom-made to fully capitalize the technological wonders of the CinemaScope process. That it is destined to enjoy tremendous boxoffice popularity is indicated by the huge width of the circula- tion of its famed novel. Page 12A