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...fine library. He also founded the city of Richmond-but he remains best remembered for his spicy diaries. Sample entries: "I went to the capitol where I sent for the wench to clean my room and I kissed her, for which God forgive me." "I had wicked inclinations to Mistress Sarah Taylor." "When I returned I had a great quarrel with my wife, in which she was to blame altogether; however. I made the first step to a reconciliation...
...more. Information in the program notes notwithstanding. Boubouroche owes its existence to more than the author's general mistrust of women, being in point of fact the dramatization of a true incident. For years Courteline had been living on the other side of a paper-thin wall from the mistress of poet Catulle Mendes, and for as many years had been silent witness to the infidelities she would blithely commit with a hidden lover the minute Mendes had closed the door behind him. Years later Courteline confessed all this to Mendes, who found it very amusing and insisted that...
...over well, in Article 330, as the dogmatic embodiment of La Brige's constant antagonist, the Law; and as the Old Gentleman who informs Boubouroche of his long-standing cuckoldry, he is properly precious. Adele, the beautiful deceiver who reduces Boubouroche to grovelling prostration, is played by Penny Hays, mistress of the cultivated pout and expert as the picture of outraged innocence manipulating male gullibility. Jay V. Pati's Boubouroche is a little less convincing, due largely, I think, to his make-up-- a cross between the Great Gildersleeve and a silent movie Simon Legree, with a touch...
...play, Boubouroche. "Dilemma" equals "horns" equals that traditional French anathema, cuckoldry. Which is precisely where the hapless Boubouroche finds himself. What is worse, he learns that he has been sporting his shameful appendage for eight whole years, since the very beginning of his liaison with his first and only mistress, Adele. Yet even when he catches her lover in the closet, he is powerless to unwind himself from around her little finger. For, as one of the actors puts it in a formally informal prologue to the double-bill, if Law is justice without temperament, Woman is temperament without justice...
...unable to forgive her, she commits suicide, and his career hits the skids. Charlie's present is no happier than his past. A couple of his brothers, both criminals, entangle him in a caper, and though Charlie escapes with his life, gunmen riddle his lovely and adoring mistress (Marie du Bois). At film's end, Charlie is back at the bistro, and the moral, if any, seems to be that shooting the piano player might, at least, put the poor devil out of his misery...