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Lucien Rozenberg
Lucien Rozenberg (11 June 1874 – 1 November 1947) was a French actor, theatre director, playwright and film director. He was principally known as a stage performer, but during the First World War he starred in a series of short comedy films, and in the 1930s returned to the screen in films by, among others, Abel Gance. During his stage career Rozenberg played in a wide range of plays from verse tragedy by Catulle Mendes to farce by Georges Feydeau to melodrama by Somerset Maugham. In addition to starring in Parisian theatres he appeared in the French provinces, and during the 1920s was seen in twenty plays during a long tour of South America. During the Second World War Rozenberg had to hide from the Germans during their occupation of Paris; his plans to re-establish himself after the war were unrealised. Life and career Early years Rozenberg was born in the 4th arrondissement of Paris on 11 June 1874, the son of Levis Rozenberg and his wife Florence, ''née'' Levy. He bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre De La Gaîté (rue Papin)
In 1862 during Haussmann's modernization of Paris, the Théâtre de la Gaîté of the boulevard du Temple was relocated to the rue Papin across from the Square des Arts et Métiers."History: The Venue, 150 Years in the Core of Paris" at the La Gaîté-Lyrique website. Retrieved 11 August 2011. The new theatre, built in an Italian style to designs of the architects Jacques-Ignace Hittorff and Alphonse Cusin, opened on 3 September. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Letter (play)
''The Letter'' is a 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham, dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection ''The Casuarina Tree''. The story was inspired by the real-life Ethel Proudlock case which involved the wife of the headmaster of Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur who was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911. She was eventually pardoned. Synopsis In the play, the action takes place in the house of a plantation owner, Robert Crosbie, and his wife Leslie in the then-British colony of Malaya, and later in the Chinese quarter of Singapore. With the husband away on business, the wife claims that she shot her husband's friend, Geoff Hammond, in self-defence, following an attempted rape; it is later revealed that Hammond was her lover, but had rejected her in favour of a native woman. The play focuses on the steps taken by the wife's lawyer to convince the court of her innocence, following the discovery of an incrimi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Deval
Jacques Deval (1895–1972) was a French playwright, screenwriter and film director. Novels *''Marie Galante'' (1931) Plays *''Une faible femme''; a comedy in three acts (1920) *''Dans sa candeur naïve''; a comedy in three acts (1926); translated into English as ''Her Cardboard Lover'' (1927), Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse *''Étienne''; a play in three acts (1930) *''Mademoiselle''; a comedy in three acts (1932) *''Tovarich''; a play in four acts (1933) *''Marie Galante''; a play with music in two acts, based on the novel ''Marie Galante''. Music by Kurt Weill (1934) *''Soubrette''; a comedy in three acts (1938) *''Oh, Brother!''; a comedy in three acts (1945) *''La Femme de ta jeunesse''; a play in three acts (1947) *''Le Rayon des jouets''; a comedy in three acts (1951) *''La Prétentaine''; a comedy in two acts (1957) *''Romancero''; a play in three acts (1958) Filmography * '' The Cardboard Lover'', directed by Robert Z. Leonard (1928, based on the play ''Dans sa candeu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert De Flers
Robert Pellevé de La Motte-Ango, marquis de Flers (25 November 1872, Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados – 30 July 1927, Vittel) was a French playwright, opera librettist, and journalist.Pierre Barillet, ''Les Seigneurs du rire: Flers – Caillavet – Croisset'', Paris, Arthème Fayard, 1999 Biography He entered the Lycée Condorcet in 1888 where he studied law with the initial ambition of entering diplomatic service. He met and befriended fellow student and writer Marcel Proust, and that relationship had a great influence upon him. Proust exposed Flers to art, literature, and music and his interests soon switched from law to writing, journalism, and literature. The two men enjoyed a lifelong friendship. After completing his studies, he toured throughout Asia in the mid-1890s. The event inspired his earliest writings: the novel ''La Courtisane Taïa et son singe vert'' (1896), the short story ''Ilsée, princesse de Tripoli'' (1896), and the travel narrative ''Vers l’Orient'' (1897). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Little Cafe (play)
''The Little Cafe'' (French:''Le petit café'') is a French comedy play written by Tristan Bernard which was first performed in 1911. An English-language musical version '' The Little Cafe'' was successfully staged in the United States in 1913.Bordman p.339 Synopsis Albert Loriflan, a waiter in a Paris cafe, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money from a wealthy relative. His unscrupulous boss, Philibert, refuses to release him from his long-term contract in the hope that Albert will buy him off with a large payment. But Albert refuses, and continues to work at the cafe even though he is now very rich. Before long he falls in love with Philibert's daughter Yvonne. Film adaptations In 1919 the play was turned into a French silent film '' The Little Cafe'' directed by Tristan Bernard's son Raymond Bernard. In 1930 Paramount Pictures made an American adaptation ''Playboy of Paris'' directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Maurice Chevalier Maurice Auguste Chevalier (; 12 Septemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Je Ne Trompe Pas Mon Mari!
''Je ne trompe pas mon mari!'' (I don't cheat on my husband!) is a three-act farce by Georges Feydeau and René Peter. It was Feydeau's last full-length play. Opening in Paris in 1914, it ran for 200 performances. The plot revolves round the love life of a well-known painter, with the other characters in various permutations around him. Background and first production By 1914 Feydeau had written, on his own or in collaboration with other playwrights, more than twenty full-length plays, mostly farces (for which he used the alternative French term "vaudevilles"). Several had enjoyed unusually long runs on the Paris stage. What is now one of his most popular plays, '' La Puce à l'oreille'' (A Flea in Her Ear), had closed prematurely after 86 performances in 1907, following the sudden death of one of its stars, but its successor, '' Occupe-toi d'Amélie!'' (Look After Amélie), ran for 288 performances the following year – considered an excellent run at the time. A younger playwri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Hennequin
Maurice Hennequin (10 December 1863 – 3 September 1926) was a French-naturalized Belgian playwright. Biography A great-grandson of the painter Philippe-Auguste Hennequin, Maurice Hennequin was the son of Alfred Hennequin (1842–1887), himself a playwright, who created a kind of vaudeville, with a complex plot but rigorously structured, nicknamed "hennequinade" The young Maurice began in the world of theater at the age of 19 in 1882, sometimes helped by his father during his early years. In a 45-year long career, he gave nearly a hundred plays, mostly comedies and vaudevilles, written either alone or in collaboration. Many of these works experienced vivid success, such as '' Le Système Ribadier'', written in collaboration with Georges Feydeau, or ''Vous n'avez rien à déclarer ?'', quoted by one character in the play '' A Flea in Her Ear'' by Feydeau, and twice adapted for film. Some of his plays even experienced real triumph, like ''Le Monsieur de cinq heures'' with 56 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Mortier
Pieter Mortier, or Pierre Mortier as the publisher of books in French, was the name of three successive generations of booksellers and publishers in the Dutch Republic. Pieter Mortier I (1661–1711) The first Pieter Mortier (Leiden, 1661 – Amsterdam, 1711) was the son of a political refugee from France, and became a mapmaker and engraver. He travelled to Paris in 1681–1685, then returned to Amsterdam where he operated as a bookseller from 1685 until 1711. He won the privilege in 1690 of publishing maps and atlases by French publishers in Amsterdam for the Dutch market. He used this privilege to win a similar set of privileges for printing an "illustrated print bible" in 1700. Also known as "Mortier's Bible" (Dutch: ''Mortierbijbel'' or ''Prentbijbel Mortier''), this book's official name was ''Historie des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments, verrykt met meer dan vierhonderd printverbeeldingen in koper gesneeden'' ("History of the Old and New Testaments: enriched with more than four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Des Variétés
The Théâtre des Variétés is a theatre and "salle de spectacles" at 7–8, boulevard Montmartre, 2nd arrondissement, in Paris. It was declared a monument historique in 1974. History It owes its creation to the theatre director Mademoiselle Montansier (Marguerite Brunet). Imprisoned for debt in 1803 and frowned upon by the government, a decree of 1806 ordered her company to leave the Théâtre du Palais-Royal which then bore the name of "Variétés". The decree's aim was to move out Montansier's troupe to make room for the company from the neighbouring Théâtre-Français, which had stayed empty even as the Variétés-Montansier had enjoyed immense public favour. Strongly unhappy about having to leave the theatre by 1 January 1807, the 77-year-old Montansier gained an audience with Napoleon himself and received his help and protection. She thus reunited the "Société des Cinq", which directed her troupe, in order to found a new theatre, the one which stands at the side o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Théâtre Des Bouffes-Parisiens
The Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens () is a Parisian theatre founded in 1855 by the composer Jacques Offenbach for the performance of opéra bouffe and operetta. The current theatre is located in the 2nd arrondissement at 4 rue Monsigny with an entrance at the back at 65 Passage Choiseul. In the 19th century the theatre was often referred to as the Salle Choiseul. With the decline in popularity of operetta after 1870, the theatre expanded its repertory to include comedies.Bouffes-Parisien website .Lamb, Andrew. "Offenbach, Jacques" in Sadie 1992, vol. 3, pp. 653–658.Levin 2009, pp. 401–402. History Salle Lacaze [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auguste Germain
Auguste Germain (22 January 1862 – 13 December 1915) was a French playwright, novelist and journalist. Life Born in Paris, Germain was a prolific author who wrote numerous plays, several novels, collections of correspondence and biographies. He collaborated in several literary journals, such as the ''"Nu au salon"'' and ''l'Écho de Paris'', where he wrote the theatrical gazette under the pseudonym of Captain Fracasse. Plays *1894: ''Famille !'', three acts comedy, Théâtre du Gymnase, (30 January 1894) *1895: ''Volte-face'', one act play, éditions H. Simonis Empis *1897: ''Argument de Phryné'', ballet in three scenes, from the program of the Folies Bergère, text by Auguste germain, music by Louis Ganne *1898: ''Les Chaussons de danse'', one act comedy, Théâtre des Variétés (27 September 1898) *1899: ''Nuit d'été'', one act comedy, Théâtre des Variétés (25 September 1899) *1899: ''L'amour pleure et rit'', three acts comedy, Théâtre de l'Athénée (25 Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
