Word: amphitryon
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...Germany's No. 1 conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler. Notably absent from the roster were such famous operatic names as Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg, Rosa Pauly. In place of the grandiose stage productions of Faust and Jedermann, two new dramatic productions were scheduled: Goethe's Egmont and Amphitryon, a play by Germany's 19th-Century, romantic Playwright Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne have abandoned "Amphitryon," and come to Boston to fill roles, not subordinate but also not outstanding, in Anton Chekhov's "The Sea Gull." An odd assortment of characters, splendidly delineated, are mixed together, and allowed to react. The plot is thus simply a series of their chance encounters and repulsions, and seems devoid of design. The characters are all more or less frustrated, and the events produced out of them are all gloomy. But the play, though discursive and depressing, is packed with incidental dramatic values of great force, and contains several large chunks...
...many arrived at the Institute of Geographical Exploration last night trying to gain admittance to the French Film's performance of "Amphitryon 39" (not 38) that it was necessary to hold an extra demand performance at 11 o'clock. Before the main show, a satire on modern life, some movies of the Paris Exposition were displayed...
...Amphitryon 39" is the name given to the next offering of the French Film Committee. The picture was known in France by the name of "Les Dieux S' amusent." It will be presented on Thursday and Friday at four performances on each...
...Amphitryon 38. The Lunts in approximate Version No. 38 of Jupiter's assumption of human form for all-too-human reasons (TIME...