Les Grands Théâtres

The story of a bad-tempered, battered actor who is too fond of whiskey who will have to coach a beginner actress for an audition for Romeo and Juliet. A fictitious audition and a meeting arranged and engineered by the actor's brother who wants him to regain a taste for the profession.

An overly spendthrift art gallery owner discovers at his own expense that his relatives, whom he thought to have cheated, are even more greedy than he.