Word: perrins
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Julie was forced to leave Sunday school, owing to certain injudicious queries respecting the relative dimensions of arks and mastodons. Coercion by Mrs. Cane of the Misses Perrin obtained her admittance to those spinsters' exclusive school...
...French steak with an American gravy, that is the trouble with the French plays produced in this country," said M. Andre Perrin, coach of the Cercle Francais, in discussing the French drama with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday...
...French plays produced in this country," said M. Perrin, "are by no means exact translations of the plays as they are written. A French play should be translated word for word and paragraph for paragraph if it is to be shown here. So many producers try to put American phrases and touches in the plot to please the audiences, and as a result it is neither French drama nor American drama. It is nothing more than French steak with American gravy...
When asked to compare French and American producers, M. Perrin said: "The French are better producers than the Americans. With the exception of Mr. David Belasco there are very few American producers or directors who can tell an actor how to say his lines. Most of them leave that part to the actors, themselves, and so the plays are broken up. Instead of a play being the expression of a single man it is the expression of the entire cast, and does not convey the author's meaning...
...Perrin concluding by volubly attacking the American stage. "With but few exceptions," he declared, "it is not seeking art, it is seeking money. Money is the god of the majority of playwrights and producers, and until this can be remedied the American stage cannot hope to make much progress. Of course there are some real artists, but they are in the minority and their influence is not felt to a large degree. Gold is America...