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Arnolphe, it will be recalled, is a man of mature years who tries to preserve the innocence of his youthful wife-to-be. | is | {
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Arnolphe, it will be recalled, is a man of mature years who tries to preserve the innocence of his youthful wife-to-be. | tries | {
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Arnolphe, it will be recalled, is a man of mature years who tries to preserve the innocence of his youthful wife-to-be. | preserve | {
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The part can lend itself to serious treatment ; one influential French critic remarked : `` Pity for Arnolphe comes with age ''. | lend | {
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The part can lend itself to serious treatment ; one influential French critic remarked : `` Pity for Arnolphe comes with age ''. | remarked | {
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The part can lend itself to serious treatment ; one influential French critic remarked : `` Pity for Arnolphe comes with age ''. | comes with | {
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Accordingly, at the Comedie last year, Jean Meyer played a sympathetic Arnolphe and drew criticism for turning the comedy into a tragedy. | played | {
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Accordingly, at the Comedie last year, Jean Meyer played a sympathetic Arnolphe and drew criticism for turning the comedy into a tragedy. | drew | {
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Accordingly, at the Comedie last year, Jean Meyer played a sympathetic Arnolphe and drew criticism for turning the comedy into a tragedy. | turning | {
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But the stuff of tragedy was not truly present and the play became only comedy acted rather slowly. | was | {
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But the stuff of tragedy was not truly present and the play became only comedy acted rather slowly. | became | {
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Wisely, the Comedie has brought Moliere 's `` Tartuffe '' on its tour and has left `` The School for Wives '' at home. | brought | {
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Tartuffe is the religious hypocrite who courts his benefactor 's wife. | is | {
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Tartuffe is the religious hypocrite who courts his benefactor 's wife. | courts | {
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Jouvet played him as a sincere zealot, and Ledoux, at the Comedie, made him a gross buffoon, or so the historians tell us. | played | {
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Jouvet played him as a sincere zealot, and Ledoux, at the Comedie, made him a gross buffoon, or so the historians tell us. | made | {
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Jouvet played him as a sincere zealot, and Ledoux, at the Comedie, made him a gross buffoon, or so the historians tell us. | tell | {
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Louis Seigner, who formerly played the deluded benefactor opposite Ledoux, is the Tartuffe of the present production, which he himself directed. | played | {
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Louis Seigner, who formerly played the deluded benefactor opposite Ledoux, is the Tartuffe of the present production, which he himself directed. | is | {
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Louis Seigner, who formerly played the deluded benefactor opposite Ledoux, is the Tartuffe of the present production, which he himself directed. | directed | {
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His Tartuffe observes the golden mean. | observes | {
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His red face, his coarse gestures, and his lustful stares bespeak his sensuality. | bespeak | {
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But his heavenward glances and his pious speeches are not merely perfunctory ; of course, they do not reflect sincerity, but they exhibit a concern to make a good job out of his pious impersonation. | are | {
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But his heavenward glances and his pious speeches are not merely perfunctory ; of course, they do not reflect sincerity, but they exhibit a concern to make a good job out of his pious impersonation. | reflect | {
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But his heavenward glances and his pious speeches are not merely perfunctory ; of course, they do not reflect sincerity, but they exhibit a concern to make a good job out of his pious impersonation. | exhibit | {
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But his heavenward glances and his pious speeches are not merely perfunctory ; of course, they do not reflect sincerity, but they exhibit a concern to make a good job out of his pious impersonation. | make | {
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Occasionally, Seigner draws some justly deserved laughs by his quick shifts from one personality to another. | draws | {
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The whole role, by the way, is a considerable transformation for anyone who has seen Seigner in his other parts. | is | {
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The whole role, by the way, is a considerable transformation for anyone who has seen Seigner in his other parts. | seen | {
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His normal specialty is playing the good-natured old man, frequently stupid or deluded but never mean or sly. | is | {
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His normal specialty is playing the good-natured old man, frequently stupid or deluded but never mean or sly. | playing | {
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Here, he is, quite persuasively, the very embodiment of meanness and slyness. | is | {
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Seigner is the dean of the company, the oldest actor in point of continuous service. | is | {
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In that function, he helps to rebut another legend about the Comedie. | helps | {
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In that function, he helps to rebut another legend about the Comedie. | rebut | {
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We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage. | told | {
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We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage. | has | {
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We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage. | are | {
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We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage. | drawing | {
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We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage. | doing | {
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We are often told that the Comedie has, unfortunately, life-contracts with old actors who are both mediocre and lazy, drawing their pay without much acting but probably doing real service to the Comedie by staying off the stage. | staying | {
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Seigner, however, is a fine actor and probably the busiest man in the company ; among his other parts are the leads in `` The Bourgeois Gentleman '' and `` The Imaginary Invalid ''. | is | {
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Seigner, however, is a fine actor and probably the busiest man in the company ; among his other parts are the leads in `` The Bourgeois Gentleman '' and `` The Imaginary Invalid ''. | are | {
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In Moliere 's farce, `` The Tricks of Scapin '', Robert Hirsch undertakes another of the great roles. | undertakes | {
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Here some innovation is attempted. | attempted | {
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To begin with, Scapin is a trickster in the old tradition of the clever servant who plots the strategy of courtship for his master. | is | {
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To begin with, Scapin is a trickster in the old tradition of the clever servant who plots the strategy of courtship for his master. | plots | {
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Hirsch 's Scapin is healthy, cheerful, energetic, revelling in his physical agility and his obvious superiority to the young gentlemen whom he serves. | is | {
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Hirsch 's Scapin is healthy, cheerful, energetic, revelling in his physical agility and his obvious superiority to the young gentlemen whom he serves. | revelling | {
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Hirsch 's Scapin is healthy, cheerful, energetic, revelling in his physical agility and his obvious superiority to the young gentlemen whom he serves. | serves | {
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Hirsch says that he has given the role certain qualities he has observed in the city toughs of the real world. | says | {
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Hirsch says that he has given the role certain qualities he has observed in the city toughs of the real world. | observed | {
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And surely his Scapin has a fresh directness, a no-nonsense quality that seems to make him his own master and nobody 's servant. | has | {
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Django Reinhardt, the ill-fated gypsy, was a true artist, one who demonstrated conclusively the power of art to renew itself and flow into many channels. | was | {
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Django Reinhardt, the ill-fated gypsy, was a true artist, one who demonstrated conclusively the power of art to renew itself and flow into many channels. | flow | {
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There is hardly a jazz guitarist in the business today who does n't owe something to Django. | is | {
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There is hardly a jazz guitarist in the business today who does n't owe something to Django. | does | {
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There is hardly a jazz guitarist in the business today who does n't owe something to Django. | owe | {
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And Django owed much to Louis Armstrong. | owed | {
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He told once of how he switched his style of playing to jazz after listening to two old Armstrong records he bought in the Flea Market in Paris. | told | {
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He told once of how he switched his style of playing to jazz after listening to two old Armstrong records he bought in the Flea Market in Paris. | switched | {
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He told once of how he switched his style of playing to jazz after listening to two old Armstrong records he bought in the Flea Market in Paris. | listening | {
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He told once of how he switched his style of playing to jazz after listening to two old Armstrong records he bought in the Flea Market in Paris. | bought | {
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It was the first jazz he had heard. | was | {
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It was the first jazz he had heard. | heard | {
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Django, who was born Jean Baptiste Reinhardt in Belgium and who died in 1953 in France, was an extraordinary man. | was born | {
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Django, who was born Jean Baptiste Reinhardt in Belgium and who died in 1953 in France, was an extraordinary man. | died | {
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Django, who was born Jean Baptiste Reinhardt in Belgium and who died in 1953 in France, was an extraordinary man. | was | {
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Most of the fingers on his left hand were burned off when he fell asleep with a cigarette. | burned off | {
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Most of the fingers on his left hand were burned off when he fell asleep with a cigarette. | fell asleep | {
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And this was before he began to play his startlingly beautiful jazz. | was | {
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And this was before he began to play his startlingly beautiful jazz. | began | {
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And this was before he began to play his startlingly beautiful jazz. | play | {
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You can catch up with him - if you have n't already - on RCA-Victor 's album. | catch up with | {
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`` Djangology '', made up of tracks he recorded with Stephane Grappelly and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France. | made up | {
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`` Djangology '', made up of tracks he recorded with Stephane Grappelly and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France. | recorded | {
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This is a choice item and Grappely deserves mention too, of course. | is | {
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This is a choice item and Grappely deserves mention too, of course. | deserves | {
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He is one of the few men in history who plays jazz on a violin. | is | {
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He is one of the few men in history who plays jazz on a violin. | plays | {
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They play : `` Minor Swing '', `` Honeysuckle Rose '', `` Beyond the Sea '', `` Bricktop '', `` Heavy Artillery '', `` Djangology '', `` After You 've Gone '', `` Where Are You, My Love ''? | play | {
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They play : `` Minor Swing '', `` Honeysuckle Rose '', `` Beyond the Sea '', `` Bricktop '', `` Heavy Artillery '', `` Djangology '', `` After You 've Gone '', `` Where Are You, My Love ''? | Gone | {
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They play : `` Minor Swing '', `` Honeysuckle Rose '', `` Beyond the Sea '', `` Bricktop '', `` Heavy Artillery '', `` Djangology '', `` After You 've Gone '', `` Where Are You, My Love ''? | Are | {
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`` I Saw Stars '', `` Lover Man '', `` Menilmontant '' and `` Swing 42 ''. | Saw | {
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All this is great proceedings - get the minutes. | is | {
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All this is great proceedings - get the minutes. | get | {
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Kid Ory, the trombonist chicken farmer, is also one of the solid anchor points of jazz. | is | {
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He dates back to the days before the first sailing ship pulled into New Orleans. | dates back | {
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He dates back to the days before the first sailing ship pulled into New Orleans. | pulled | {
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His horn has blown loud and clear across the land for more years than he cares to remember. | blown | {
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His horn has blown loud and clear across the land for more years than he cares to remember. | cares | {
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His horn has blown loud and clear across the land for more years than he cares to remember. | remember | {
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Good Time Jazz has released a nice two-record album which he made. | released | {
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Good Time Jazz has released a nice two-record album which he made. | made | {
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