Word: dubosc
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...film, a production of Jacques de Baroncelli after Erekmann-Chatrian, stars Lucien Dubosc of the Comedie Francaise in the title role of Fritz Cobus, the prize bachelor of the little village of Hunenbourg, who falls prey to the charms of his farmer's daughter, Suzel, played by Simone Bourday...
...There Dubosc was her teacher and Gonsalvo her constant companion. Dubosc realized her capabilities, pointed her far. Gonsalvo betrayed her, scorned her, until it was a half-crazed creature, without ambition, almost without voice, whom Dubosc mercifully took to Paris. There she met Raymond who was young. They lived together, went to Tours together where Dubosc had arranged for Helma's apprenticeship. In Tours she was soon the prima donna, successful because she was healthy, worked hard, sang splendidly. John O'Brien, a visiting tenor, heard her, got her an engagement in Paris. Then came the problem...
...Booth did. He spoke in verse as if it were his native tongue, and his voice vibrated not only on the ear but on the soul. He was the last idealist in tragedy. Mr. Irving poses as an idealist, but no one can see him in "Louis XI," or "Dubosc," without thinking what a very realistic idealist he must be. Mr. Irving's speaking of the text in Hamlet, as wherever this actor is called upon to utter blank verse, is by turns sing-songy and jirkily prosy, but Mr. Irving is the most intellectual of players, and has illuminated...
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