Word: boule
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...Last Time I Saw Paris is a loving, microscopic peep at the infusorial life of the block-long rue de la Huchette (just off the boul' Mich'), Author Paul's lost hedonistic heaven. Its hotels, bars, bordello and habitues exhale for him the garlicky breath of the real France−"the France one prefers to remember." Mostly they stagger between the tough tenderness of a Daumier cartoon and William Locke's The Beloved Vagabond. They also suggest a reason for France's fall...
...death in the rapids below, then takes refuge with the Joneses until Sister Mary Josephine fetches her back. Old Googli, the cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from the skull of lascivious Brother Francois who had made an insane attack on the sacred virgin of the medicine man. At Madame Boul-boul's tavern, "Admiral" Delabouche and his crony play dominoes. Flore arrives and the town takes pride in its first courtesan who becomes the Administrator's mistress. The fragments fit into each other to form a crazy-quilt pattern in black and white...
...Notre Dame by Baron and Baroness Tyrrell. The suave gentlemen and sparkling ladies of the Corps Diplomatique, the dowdy but invincible aristocrats of the Faubourg St. Germain, the most presentable of the Nouveau Riches, a sprinkling of tail-coated French statesmen, a dash of the long-haired Boul' Mich (for the Baroness Tyrrell gives literary suppers), these along with the most eminent Roman Catholics of the English and U. S. colonies jammed vast Notre Dame de Paris...
...enough money to make "le grand four" in a Parisian taxicab, Mr. Louis D' Arclay is the dominating and driving force of action. His remarkable facility of facial and bodily expression, are the embodiment of all American traditions for the Apache underworld of Paris. Mr. John W. Ransome as Boul, short for boulevard, nearly lost himself in enthusiasm for his part and shouted his way to fame. As a lightfingered taxi man he harbors much too warm a heart, and the humor for a really humorous part. As Pere Chevillan, a jovial kill or cure purveyor of religion...
...heights of courage and renunciation. Ann Forrest avoided overdoing this difficult role, and gave the outstanding performance of the evening, and one of the best of this season. W. H. Post was the merry priest, guardian angel of the denizens of the sewer, and John W. Ransone, the lusty Boul'. Grace Menken made so effective a harpy that the audience hissed...