Word: dutilleul
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...fiction, the culmination of two years of secret planning by television journalist Philippe Dutilleul and his colleagues at the French-language public broadcaster. The ensuing panic didn't quite approach that created by Orson Welles' War of the Worlds - acknowledged as the model for the Belgian prank - but more than 30,000 phone calls flooded the broadcaster's switchboard, and the channel's website crashed as concerned viewers sought confirmation. The reason for the hubbub, of course, is that although the events described in the fake "news" broadcast had more than a dash of melodrama, they were eminently believable...
...Walker-Through-Watts a meek, middle-aged government clerk named Dutilleul fumbles for the light switch in his apartment one evening and finds himself in the vestibule outside. Hypnotically, he walks right back through the wall into his flat. He soon puts his strange talent to use in bank vaults and jewelry shops, signs himself "The Werewolf." When the Werewolf is captured by the police, he simply evaporates through the thick prison walls. But Dutilleul's powers desert him one night in mid-wall at his mistress' home, and passing Parisians take his walled-up cries...
...cast is as follows: Boulinard, P. S. Abreu '11 Paul Godard, F. R. Leland '10 Paul Bodard, J. Heard, Jr., '12 Le Major Boulingrin, J. Munroe '13 Bruniquel, H. Cutting '13 Emile, Q. S. Greene '13 Dutilleul, E. V. D. Salsbury '10 Desboucheau, H. B. H. Ripley '12 Louveteau, J. R. Mayer '10 Benoit, C. S. Cutting '12 Pamela, C. Chadwick '10 Cecile, M. Hoffman '12 Agathe, O. W. Roosevelt '12 Augustine, R. B. Suckley...
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