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The Detroit Times
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan
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Billie Burke captivates Paris with her performance in 'Love Watches' despite poor French, leading producer Chas. Frohman to commission a new play by Robt. de Flers and de Gaillavet where she plays an American girl who doesn't speak French, opening in Paris in March and later touring the US with language adaptations.
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PARIS, June 9.-Billie Burke has captured Paris as she captured London, in "Love Watches." Her daintiness was irresistible.
Paris demanded to see her in a new play. She can speak French but poorly. Paris didn't care: it still cried for Billie Burke.
Chas. Frohman is too versatile to permit a little thing like ignorance of a language to stand in the way of one of his stars. He commissioned Robt. de Flers and de Gaillavet, the authors of "Love Watches" to write a new play for Billie Burke.
In this play she will be a madcap, dare-devil, irresponsible, unconventional American girl who doesn't speak French at all. All the other characters in the play will speak French. Can you beat that for ingenuity? The play opens in Paris in March.
Later it goes to the United States, but there all the minor characters will speak English, and Billie Burke will speak French. Also, can you beat that?
BILLIE BURKE.
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June 9
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Billie Burke wins over Paris in 'Love Watches' despite poor French; Frohman commissions new play by de Flers and de Gaillavet where she plays an American who doesn't speak French, opening in Paris in March, then touring US with reversed languages.