New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
Hackett HonOred
In France; Elsie
Janis i'm Paris
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Andre continues to wax jealous. Al
days pass he wakes worse. In the
meantime the American has changed
MS address-quite naturally. At last
| Blanche .despairs of ever regaining
Andres love because Andre has con-
| TIMED to be rough and is constantly
getting rougher. Here comes the viii
famous American with a letter, asking
Blanche to fly away to New York and
share fiat at 1925 a month on his
army pay. just as she is looking back
Tor the last time into the dear old liv-
ing room. Grandfather Merlin, who has
lived in the house all the time, is heard
to mutter something reminiscent of the
good old days when the children were
happy together Blanche turns back.
She cannot go-she cannot. Her duty
is to her husband and no American.
Whether she regains Andres love is
problematic. The curtain intervenes,
leaving each Paris audience in the sus-
pense that Paris audiences like.
The Publisher-villain
An Entirely New Brand
lie Bonheur Cinq Sous" is another
new play for Paris in which the happy
menage is spoiled by third party.
This time the "buttinski'' is a book
publisher who admires Sylvette Jeton
more than he admres the plot of friend
husbands proposed novel. In other
words, he will admire the plot if Svl-
vette will be admired. Sylvette, how
ever, is ambitious for husband
Jerome's career and is inclined to agree
that is, not really-to the proposi-
ton of M. Rampillon, the pub
Usher. Now that his novel is ordered
Jerome must have absolute quiet, and
the young couple retire to a modest
country cottage where the masterniece
may be composed, with composurc. MS
1t were. But there are rural inter
ruptions-barking dogs, Growing chick
ems and the village cure, who wants to
be amiable. Then M. Ramnillor
breaks in on the idyll demanding divers
chapters. He likewise presses his IN
welcome attentions on Sylvette. She
snubs him, and he goes back to Paris
chewing his false mustache. jerome
and Sylvette then decide to give nm
literary work and live on among tho
COWS and chickens. But the villain
still pursued her. He sends ennis
sarles to fatter jerome into continued
literary efforts. The audience knows
why. Jerome writes like house afre
and his novel is a bowling snccess
Mnen the curtain descends poor little
oylvette is en- route for Paris to keen
her bargain. IT'S cruel world.
Faris gives some of her best talent
to these triangle" melodramas. which
have New York's bedroom farces
backed off the boards. Paris likes
tnem' but the question poses, Would
they be greater success in America
on Main Street or Broadway?
The Truth and Its
Inevitable Embarrassments
The Naked Truth" an English pre-
war comedy now revived in Paris.
draws to the leading role Max Dearly
perhaps the most popular French
comedian. Compared to other n,ays
now running, "The Naked Truth" de-
spite its name, is Sunday school con-
cert. Dearly, as Bob Barnett, is pledged
for twenty-four hours to tell the truth
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth. Dearly is the whole show with
his truths and embarrassing situations.
Whlie English adaptations of French
plays enjoy certain popularity in
London, French adaptations Of English
plays have never been tremendous suc-
cesses in Paris. "The Naked Truth"
is on trial at the Vaudeville Theater
but the naked truth is that it apneals
more to Anglo-Saxon tourists than
Parisians.
French theatergoers revel in in
trlgue and honor, of which there are
plenty, though virtue triumphs in
Gosseline's father, after ten NIGHTS
melodramas at the Bataclan Theater
"Gosseline'sS father, after ten nights
IN the barroom, is saved by his seven
teen-year-old offspring, even though
the crooked patrolman on the beat
tries to prevent the rescue. During
the interim, however, the inebriated
parent staggers into the lions cage at
circus, which is thrilling, to say the
least. This play would go big on Main
Street.
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