Word: tartarin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...aesthetic and dilettante free-lance, reverting from the broader and more serious policy of recent years. The December number leaves an impression of fine skein, filmy, evanescent. One looks in vain for substance. The featured interview with Venizelos may have been intended for thought, but the style of Tartarin de Tarascon hardly enhances the glory that was, and is not, Greece...
Thayer Hall, Middle Entry--"Campus Cops", Rooms 5-9 and 11. "Y. Dewey Wantit," Rooms 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. "Seldom Songless Sextet," Rooms 1, 2, 4. "Tartarin Sancho", Room 17. "George Washington, Jr.," Room 19. "The Epicureans," Room 18. "The Hermit," Room 20. South Entry--"The Wasups", Rooms 27, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33. "Tye Plyce," Rooms 34-40. "Glutous Maximus," Rooms 43, 44. "The Tragedians," Rooms 22, 26. "Four of a Kind," Rooms 24, 25. "Three Studious Students," Rooms 34, 42. "Klismos," Room 41. "The Rameses Fiat Haig," Rooms 45-51. "The Steve Brodies," Rooms...
...story of "Les Absents" depicts the disorders which a well regulated house-hold is thrown into by the arrival of a long absent and beloved newhew. The author, Alphonse Daudet, displays in this play the same vivacious style and close observation shown in "Tartarin". The last comedy, "Permettez Madame," tells of the obstacles thrown in the way of two lovers, who, hindered by the obstinacy of their respective guardians, finally succeed in arranging their wedding. The situations in this play give a good idea of Labiches's prolific imagination, animation, and unceasing gaiety...