Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Theatre Francais of New York, composed entirely of graduates of the Paris Conservatory and actors taken from the best Parisian theatrical companies, will present a series of French plays especially adapted to American audiences at the new Toy Theatre, Boston, from January 25 to February 6. The production will be under the auspices of the French Drama Society of which Professor Henri Lichtenberger of the Sorbonne, now lecturing at the University, is honorary president. On January 25 and 26 "Blanchette," by Eugene Brieux, will be presented. "Le Gendre de M. Poirier," "Le Voyage de M. Perrichon," "L'Abbe Constantin...
Neither of the stories is calculated to disturb the regularity of one's breathing; and yet each has deft touches of characterization. Mr. Davis's sketch of the professional female smuggler glimpses the tedium of a life of pretense in Parisian society. Mr. Rogers's description of editorial ethics on a juvenile newspaper, in spite of its hampering style, gives some amusing aspects of boy nature...
...deal with the exceptional Boston John, especially if he is a snob and a cad, when there are so many Johns of Boston who are straight and clean and brave? The gentleman of the first person, as well as he of the third, whom Mr. Barlow conducts through a Parisian evening in a study of the contrast between Basque impetuosity and English simplicity, pay a very modest price in losing the outside as well as the inside of their pocket-books; in fact, they 'get off easy'; but I don't care about them; I want to know what became...