Pauvre Richard

The first and the latest American Ambassadors to France have both delighted Frenchmen. They like Myron Timothy Herrick, and they thought Benjamin Franklin was delicieux. Therefore Parisians were a-tiptoe with anticipation, last week, as the state-owned Theatre de L' Odeon (second only in kudos to the Comedie Francaise) started rehearsing Pauvre Richard.

The Paris premiere of Poor Richard will be on the night of March 22, 1929, not an anniversary of anything but, roughly speaking, the Sesquicentennial of B. Franklin's arrival in Paris. The play, by Playwright Louis Evan Shipman of Manhattan will be the first by a modern U.S. author ever presented at the Odeon.