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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...
Outside was the dark and curving Soho alley, with the foggy lights of a Singhalese restaurant, a French bookshop, a wig-maker's, an oyster bar. And the room was violently foreign, with frescoes by a sign painter−or a barn-painter: Isola Bella. Fiesole, Castel Sant' Angelo. But Sam did not look at them. He−who but once in his life had attended a Rotary lunch−looked at the Rotary wheel, and his smile was curiously timid. There was no reason for it apparent to him, but suddenly these banners made him feel that...
Giovanni Pisano was employed by Charles of Anjou on the Castel Nuovo at Naples, executed the Campo Santo at Pisa, and became architect of the new cathedral at Siena...
...male in this case is the son of one of France's most historic houses−Le Comte Boni de Castel-ane. The female is the daughter of a U. S. stockjobber, the late Jay Gould−the present Anna, Marquise de Talleyrand Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan...
Conduisez le dans le castel...