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Show uu 1 FRENCH DRAMATIST OBJECT OF PRAISE NSW STORK, April 2G. lioltere, as one of the great universal men In literature, was praised as the personification per-sonification of France by Dr. William Wil-liam Mllllgan Sloane. president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, at the dinner Monday, celebrating cele-brating the ,100th anniversary' of the groat French dramatist. The delegates from the French academy who were present, M Maurice Maur-ice Donnay and M Andre Chevrillon, were extolled by Dr. sloane, the first, as the foremost living MollePs scholar, schol-ar, and the second, as the great Interpreter In-terpreter of Anglo-Saxon spirit to France, and of Franco to the English speaking peoples Dr. Sloane saw 1 greater unaersianamg betweer France and America through tht Mollere celebration and pledged thc American academy to the work ol strengthening the bonds between th ' two countries. |