Word: tit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, other British beasts were reverting to type. "A blue tit," wrote a correspondent to the letters column of the Times of London, "flew in at my window this morning, woke me up by thumping a Balzac novel, and proceeded to reconnoitre...
Every year since 1937, 39-year-old Fridolin had written, backed, directed and starred in a revue called Fridolinons, a collection of skits, songs and dances. With it he had toured his native Quebec, drawn some 130,000 people a season, netted an annual profit of about $50,000. Tit-Cog was Fridolin's first try at writing a full-length play...
...Tit-Coq (Little Rooster) is a story about a French Canadian soldier who, as a product of a foundling home, is acutely conscious of his bastardy. Fridolin takes the title role. He is onstage three-quarters of the time, plying his audience for laughs with Chaplinesque pantomimes of Tit-Coq's army life, playing for tears with sentimental references to his hero's illegitimacy...
...Tit-Cog has already become Fridolin's biggest hit in his 11 years as an actor. Its run to date has passed the Fridolinons' best (53 performances), seems certain to reach the loo-performance mark before it goes on the road in French Canada. Its success has also brought Manhattan's Theatre Guild agents to Montreal with an offer of about $3,000 a week (on a percentage basis) for an English version for Broadway, with Fridolin, who speaks fluent English, in the lead...
Another reason for passing up Manhattan this year was Fridolin's hope to try out an English version of his play in English Canada. If Torontonians, for example, liked Tit-Coq, Fridolin was certain that New Yorkers would also. Said he: "When art is right locally, it will be right internationally...