• Title: Une pièce à succès
• Year: 1908
• Duration: unknown
• Rating:
• Genres: Comedy, Short

Summary Une pièce à succès (1908)

A young artist of the Latin Quarter in Paris, having succeeded after seven vain attempts in writing a complete play, finds it such a marvelous masterpiece that he goes to the leading theater of his district, where he, on gaining a hearing from the directors, begins reading the wonderful tragedy. Full of passion, and convinced of the impression he is making on his audience, he goes on reading and reading until exhausted. He turns towards the directors, and finds, to his dismay, that they are all fast asleep. Disgusted, but not discouraged, he meets some friends in an artists' café, who invite him to dine with them. He, thinking that his fame has already reached their ears, proceeds unasked to climb on a chair and deliver his wonderful lecture once more. Again he is finishing the most pathetic part when a crash of broken glass startles him. He first thinks that emotion has caused the accident, but, looking up, he finds the whole café slumbering, and the waiter having fallen fast asleep, has dropped his tray loaded with crockery. Desperate, he rushes out and takes refuge in a park, where, meeting an old school chum, he tells him his misfortune, and the friend, sympathizing, takes the manuscript and starts to read. The author soon commences a yawn; so does the reader; they brace up for a moment, but at last fall against each other, and are soon in the land of nod. A boy, passing by, notices the sleeping group and sets fire to the manuscript, and the poor author, awakened by the glare of his burning drama, falls on his knees in his vain endeavors to put out the cruel flames,

Synopsis Une pièce à succès (1908)