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...Actors Playhouse, at the Hotel Bostonian. Article 330, the curtain-raiser, is one of a number of brief but biting anti-legal playlets by Courteline, inspired by much the same distaste for juridical hoopla underlying Daumier's Gens de Justice and countless other examples of esprit gaulois from Mantre Pathelin to the present. La Brige, harassed hero of several Courteline comedies, finds himself at odds with Justice for violation of the article in the Civil Code forbidding indecent exposure. But this is no scabrous little burlesque of the type so common during the period, meant to titillate the lubricious instincts...
...second phase of its activities the group will present in February a program of three one-act farces, each using a different cast and director. The plays will be Maitre Pierre Pathelin by an anonymous 15th century author, Cervantes' Judge of the Divorce Court, and Prevert's The United Family...
...Robin and Marion, and Pathelin," Professor Webster, Sever...
...part with preparations for the Junior Promenade, which takes place this evening. An idea which was put into practice for the first time this year was that of having the annual French play on Saturday night before the Prom instead of in the fall term. Two farces; "L'Avocat Pathelin" and "Le Baron de Fourchevif," were successfully rendered by the French Club...
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