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Two comic monologs by Monsieur Zip [Paul Lack]

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French
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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Paul Lack (as the comic "Zip) does two monologs with brief orchestral accompaniment.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Victor disc, cat. no. 63141. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Zip

Hernani: act III, scene 4: Hélas j’ai blasphémé

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French
Locations: 
France
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Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Disque pour Gramophone disc, No. 031049. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Lambert Fils, Albert

Les pauvres gens

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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker (male) (identified as a “lecteur” in the French Department of the University of London) reads this passage (apparently as an exercise in the Sperlings Phonothek language-instruction series).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is Side A of the 10-inch, 78 rpm, monophonic lacquer Sperlings Phonothek disc, cat. no. 7608a. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection) WAVE File is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Stéphan, M[onsieur] E.

Ruy Blas: act III, scene 4: “Bon appétit messieurs” [sic]

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French
Locations: 
France
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Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Disque pour Gramophone disc, No. 031051. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Lambert Fils, Albert

Fables of La Fontaine (Comédie Française)

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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Members of the Comédie Française read selected fables from Books I-XI.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tape is a dub made in the Old Lab from (unidentified) phonograph records c. 1960. (Later note: these phonograph records are probably identical with the ones in our collection.)
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La Fontaine: Five fables; La Fontaine: Five fables; La Fontaine: Five fables

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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker recites five fables: 1) La cigale et la fourmi, 2) Le corbeau et le renard, 3) La grenouille qui veut se faire aussi grosse que le boeuf, 4) Le rat de ville et le rat des champs, and 5) Le loup et l'agneau.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Disque “Gramophone” disc, No. K 210. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
L’Abbé X., M[onsieur]

“La laitière et le pot au lait” [and] “Les loups et les brebis”

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French
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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
“Doyen de la Comédie Française” recites the fables.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Pathé disc, No. X.4051. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Silvain, M[onsieur]

Le laboureur et ses enfants; Méthode H. Pernot

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French
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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Native speaker (male) does a slow and exaggerated reading of La Fontaine's fable apparently for learners of French.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Recording consists of the last two minutes (approx.) of Side A of a Université de Paris - Institut de Phonétique disc, No. X.9069. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Tovar, Mme. Bara de; (or Paul Oetly?)

Three La Fontaine fables on disc

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French
Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Leitner recites the three fables.
Collection Technical Notes: 
(Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Leitner, (Monsieur) [?]

La fille (and) Le corbeau et le renard (and) Le héron; La fille (and) Le corbeau et le renard (and) Le héron; La fille (and) Le corbeau et le renard (and) Le héron

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Locations: 
France
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
“Sociétaire de la Comédie Française” recites the three fables.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Phonograph record is a Selmer disc, No. SC 21. (Clarence E. Parmenter Collection)
Contributor: 
Charon, Jacques