NO LOVE FOR FAIRY TALES.
Maeterlinck's "Blue Bird" is not such a success in Paris as it was in London, and this, says a Paris writer, "not because it is less well played, or mounted,' but because the French character has never yet quite understood the charm of fairy tales for grown-up people." And yet the same writer tells us that a young Dane, M. Paul Leyssac, has captivated Paris by his way of telling Hans Anderson's fairy tales. "I heard him tell first a story of Bjornsterne Bjornson's, a tragic, grim tale, which made everyone shiver; then the whimsical story of a scandal by Hans Andersen, and the charming '"What tho Moon Saw"; and after that every woman in the room was wiping her eyes.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1127, 15 May 1911, Page 9
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126NO LOVE FOR FAIRY TALES. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1127, 15 May 1911, Page 9
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