Word: charbonneau
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Retorted Robert Charbonneau, Montreal writer and publisher: "Let the facts talk. If Americans do not like literature, how then explain the success of writers like Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill...
Last week Charbonneau sounded off again. He told La Société des Editeurs Canadiens du Livre Français: "It is by being Canadians and proud of it that our writers will assert themselves. . . . While modern French literature is in full decadence, while its techniques are obsolete . . . why should our younger writers continue to tie themselves exclusively...
...literary todo, more than artistic attitudes was at stake. During the war, such Quebec publishing concerns as Charbonneau's Les Editions de I'Arbre had a free hand in launching French Canadian novels that might otherwise have gone to Paris. Quebec wants to keep the business. French publishers, on the other hand, squirm as Quebec-printed books run into big editions. Said a Paris critic: "[French] Canadians should be ostracized. They are going to ruin our market...
...with accuracy. Richard Merian as Labordave, presented a very fine piece of acting. It is unfortunate that Ernest Iselin, the president of the Cercle, was not able to take a better part than that of Raoul de Saint Medard. Gordon Bell was cast in a minor role as M. Charbonneau...
Miss Janet Sabine, daughter of the late Professor Sabine of Harvard, authority on acoustics, will play opposite Mr. Etting as Lucienne Godefroid. Miss Louisa Bazeley will be cast as Mme. Charbonneau and Miss Elizabeth Lyman will play Mme. Montpepin. In the smaller parts are cast Miss Charlotte Moseley as Argile, Miss Helen Howe as Rosine Charbonneau, Miss Helen Streeter as Francoise and Miss Juliet Greene as Julie...