Word: lefrance
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This pattern takes the shape of one of the most basic of all plot schemes--the triangle. Its members are three French prison inmates: one, Green Eyes, a condemned murderer; the second, Maurice, a young boy who is, apparently, a born criminal; and the third, Lefranc, a man who has only skirted the edges of the criminal world. Green Eyes dominates the triangle by virtue of the power which his crime confers on him. Each of the others tries to gain something of that power for himself by excluding the other from the murderer's regard...
...Sullivan also emerges as an actor of professional capabilities. On paper, the part of Lefranc is the most vaguely defined of the three, but Sullivan succeeds in drawing a sharply-edged portrait of a tragic character. His performance is suffused with pity for the man--but just the right amount. The performance clearly is the product of much thought and insight. And the only other member of the cast, Robert Hesse, shows in his brief appearance as a guard that his work is promising...
...Abel Lefranc, one of the most distinguished French scholars living, who was exchange Professor to the University in 1909, yesterday delivered an address on "Moliere et les Medecins de son Temps...
...Lecture (In French) "Moliere et les Medecins de son Temps." Professor Abel Lefranc, of the College de France. Emerson...
Monsieur Abel Lefranc, since 1904 professeur de Langue et de Litterature francaises modernes at the College de France, visiting professor for this semester at the University of Chicago, and one of the most distinguished of living French scholars, will give a lecture in French under the auspices of the French Department in Emerson D, Monday at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Moliere et les medecins." Professor J. D. M. Ford will introduce the speaker, and the lecture will be open to the public...