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Word: castel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Topaze is a graceful and ever so Gallic play about graft in which the characters bear such names as Castel-Benac, Tronche-Bobine and Pitart-Vignolles, and act accordingly. It is the wistful, pathetic, ludicrous history of M. Topaze, a sad-eyed French schoolmaster with a beard, who was ousted from his classroom because he persisted in telling a wealthy parent the truth about her repulsive and boobish child. Not that M. Topaze objected to offering flattery-he was merely too simple ever to have conceived of it. He lived in a world governed by the axioms which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

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