The fifth of the series of lectures on the French drama, given yesterday, was on "French Family Life, and the Contemporary Drama; M. Brieux." M. Deschamps said as follows:
The problems relative to the modern family have been studied and put on the stage by various French dramatists. Of late, however, Eugene Brieux has established his reputation as a specialist in this particular line.
M. Brieux, who started as a journalist in a small country town, has seen much of life. "Menage d'Artistes," "Blanchette," and "Les Trois Filles de M. Dupont" are works that show a keen desire for fighting the evils with which the family life of our society is afflicted. The subjects he deals with are as modern and as true to life as the news we read in the daily papers; they are comedies as well as moral plays. He is another who always works out his plots with the simplest solutions.
The lecturer concluded with an appreciative analysis of M. Brieux's most successful plays.
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