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Announcing December 15 as the date of its annual fall production, the Cercle Francis made public last night the revised and definitive list of plays for presentation at that time. The list of plays, consisting of three one-act pieces, is composed of "Foudroye", "Le Rival pour rire", and "Le Pater", it was announced by M. Ernest Perrin, coach of the production...
...Foudroye", by R. B. des Cormiers, is a modern comedy dealing with the eternal triangle; "Le Rival pour rire" is an up-to-date "Comedy of Errors" by Ernest Grenet-Dancourt; and "Le Pater", by Francois Coppee, is a drama of forgiveness hinging on the complications arising from a murder...
...Rire, Paris comic paper, takes a slightly different view. In a double cartoon called Tracts et Tractions (Ideals and Deals), it shows a Communist in Paris holding the Communist paper L'Humanite and shouting Le Rif aux Rifains (the Riff for the Riffians). In the other picture is an Englishman in conference with a Riff and the inscription beneath runs: "... et, bien entendu, les mines de Ouergha á une société anglaise!" ( . . . and, of course, the Wergha mines for an English company...
There is a second objection to the ideal--the size of the College. It has been said that one may know all the girls in Boston but as for knowing all the members of one's own class, c'est a rire, the obstacles of numbers is too great. From this numerical incubus arises a difficulty. The personal element tends to disappear from instruction. In any college the quantity of really eminent professors is limited; the more students in a college the less opportunity any student has to receive from these eminent men a stimulation and assistance adapted...
...people of Paris have a curious sense of humor and no matter how tragic a circumstance may be they can always find in it de quoi rire...