SON OF GIBOYER_The. Emile Angier, upholder of virtues upon the French stage, produced in excellent comedy ofThe Ses-z.f.
Giboyer Le de Giboyer> ). year ear ter, he had introduced Giboyer as a hack writer ready to sell his pen to the highest bidder. In this sequel he made the character of his literary Bohemian more sympathetic, and, instead of attacking financial speculation and money-lust, assailed social cor ruption . e to poli i fl iiti e at empts e of e nobili i.o er has been engaged to wrarch the spokesman of the ri , but no sooner has Marecha got his lesson by heart than the party leaders select another orator. Nothing daunted, Marechal now declaims a radical republican speech prepared by the same facile hand and reflecting Giboyer's true sentiments. The ad dress creates a sensation, and Marechal, sup posing it to be the composition of his oung serrPt-nr_ consents in gratitude to t marria . emerges, how ver, at the secretary is a natural son and that his father is the disreputable Giboyer, who has taken this means of assisting the yowl; in secret. Xaxechal is so far converted to
democracy, however, that he interposes no ob this match which he would earlier have disapproved. Even the,.. Marquis d'Au berive, who has schemed-to win pirEVEernande Marcella].and her fortune for his nephew, abandons that ambition, and, blessing the lovers, offers to lend the_protection of his name to the son of Giboyer. 'Although the comedy is old fashioned cl in its easy conclusi and ittreliance upon....catures asi es, it sparkles with wit, and, in of much that is politically out of date, still lives, thanks to th of • It has been translated into Eng Benedict Papot (in Drama, November 1911) and receives full discussion in the French essays upon Angier by Morillot (1901) and Gaillard (1910).