Word: rouleau
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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Gigi is as French as Colette. But where Colette's Frenchness is everything meant by "Gallic," Director Raymond Rouleau's is everything called up by the Gare du Nord-bustling, clamorous, boisterous. This coarsens a play whose slightness should be equaled by its lightness, whose charm lies in the contrast between its manners and its morals. Such gentility may make the play seem more immoral, but without it Gigi is merely raffish, and less entertaining than it should be. Only such a tittle jewel of a scene as the scene of the jewels comes off completely. Otherwise, Gigi...