Word: daime
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Dates: during 1907-1907
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...still contained in the repertoire of the Comedies Francaise, and is played today by some of the best actors of that illustrious company. The action takes place in the time of Louis XI. At the opening of the play, the king is seated at table with Oliver-Le-Daim, his barber and favorite, when a great commotion is heard in the street, and Gringoire, the vagabond poet, is seen outside. Gringoire has incurred the enmity of Oliver, who summons him into the mansion and compels him to sing one of his ballads with which all the streets of Paris...
...three times a week, and the work is progressing rapidly. The rehearsals are under the direction of M. D'Armand, who has selected the following casts for the plays: "GRINGOIRE." Louis XI W. G. Wendell '09 Pierre Gringoire G. L. Foote '08 Simon Fournier L. Hill '10 Olivier le Daim L. Wulsin '10 Loise G. E. Jones '11 Nicole P. R. Dickson '10 "J'INVITE LE COLONEL." Carbonnel C. deGuigne '09 Le Colonel G. K. Munroe '10 Jules L. P. Chapin '11 Isidore R. MacVeagh '10 Elisa F. R. Leland '10 "LA GIFLE." Blanc Misseron P. S. Abreu '11 Chamberlot...
...presented by the Cercle Francais in December, gives an opportunity for the bringing out of the pathetic as well as the comic. The action takes place in the time of Louis XI. At the opening of the play, the king is sitting at table with Olivier-Le-Daim, his barber and favorite, when a great commotion is heard in the street, and Gringoire, the vagabond poet, is seen without. Gringoire has incurred the enmity of Olivier, who summons him into the mansion and compels him to sing a ballad of his with which all the streets of Paris are ringing...
Louis then summons before him Loyse, the beautiful daughter of Simon Fourniez, a rich bourgeois whom he has befriended. Olivier-Le-Daim has seen her and fallen in love with her at sight. The king promises Gringoire that he will spare his life if he succeeds in winning Loyse within the hour. When left alone with her, however, the poet forces himself, by a supreme effort, to keep silence on the subject of the king's command. On the latter's return, Loyse for the first time realizes Gringoire's position, and declares that by the subtlety and sweetness...
...Colonel Bernard, G. K. Monroe '10 Jules, H. M. Suckley '10, F. B. Biddle '09. Isidor, R. MacVeagh '10, H. W. H. Powel '09. Elisa, F. R. Leland '10. "Gringoire." Louis XI, Gringoire, G. L. Foote '08. Fourniez, L. Hill '10, M. Crawford '11. Olivier-Le-Daim, W. G. Wendell '09, L. Woolson '10. Loyse, H. M. Hines '10, L. Woolson '10 Nicole Andry, J. Millet '10, P. R. Dixon '10. "La Gifle." Blanc Misseron, A. F. Hurlbut, 1G. Chamberlot, S. Kelly '09. Un huissier, R. H. Hutchinson '10, A. King...