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Some years ago a Paris ugly contest was won by eminent contenders-Novelist Georges Ohnet, Critic Francisque Sarcey and M. Francois Paul Jules Grevy, one-time (1879-1887) President of the Republic. To attract entrants for this year's contest, the promoters made public speeches praising Aesop, Cicero, Socrates and other famed eyesores. Competitors soon came flocking-a fishmonger with warts; a bald female pinhead who claimed to have been in a circus; an Italian Jew with erysipelas; Mme. Grun, a scowling housewife, with photographs of a neighbor whose mouth, she vowed, would admit a whole orange; pock-marked...
...Danion of the French Department spoke at Pierce Hall, Boston, yesterday on Francisque Sarcey...
...invites every student who cares for its objects to present himself for membership. The coming meeting will be open to the University, and any man who wishes to see the Conference at home will be welcome. Professor de Sumichrast will speak on "The Haps and Mishaps of Francisque Sarcey, lecturer...
...Americans know M. Coquelin only as a great comedian, but in the Parisian world he figures as an able lecturer as well. At the Salle des Conferences on the Boulevard des Capucines his lectures are heard and appreciated by audiences accustomed to the discourses of such men as Francisque Sarcey and Henri de Lappommeraye. M. Coquelin is the type of a French gentleman in every sense of the word; an intelligent actor and a profound scholar. He is one of the leading Molieristes of his time, his criticism of Tartuffe being considered a remarkable piece of work. As M. Coquelin...
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