Word: bergerac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CYRANO DE BERGERAC - Walter Hampden again reviving Rostand's classic...
...Last Night of Don Juan. Edmond Rostand is best known in the U. S. for Cyrano de Bergerac, which Walter Hampden has been performing with such marked success on and off for the past two seasons. This play of his has never before been done in the U. S. It is now given at the Greenwich Village Theatre in the translation of Sidney Howard, and provides a curiously contradictory evening...
Cyrano de Bergerac. With this film, it is again indicated that good plays do not necessarily make good cinemas. Also the casual cinema adapter is vaguely vindicated. For this version of the Rostand comedy- made by Italians-follows the lines of the original like a silk stocking. Thus is eliminated virtually all the comedy of line. The cinema is essentially the drama of movement. Cyrano sits still too often. Yet, as a faithful transcription of one of the greatest of modern comedies, the venture deserves attention from thoughtful cinema-goers-particularly those in. the waste places where otherwise the comedy...
...Highest honor in college, Phi Beta Kappa; most respected extra-curricular activity, Princetonian; favorite professor, McClellan; favorite preceptor, Nylander; favorite coach, Fitzpatrick; favorite dormitory, '79; favorite sport to watch, football; favorite sport to play, tennis; favorite novel, "Tom Jones"; favorite poem, "If"; favorite play, "Cyrano de Bergerac"; favorite movie, "The Woman of Paris"; favorite fiction writer, "Day" Edgar; favorite artist, Coles Phillips; favorite poet, Byron; worst poet, "Helz-Belz"; favorite newspaper, New York Times; favorite magazine, Saturday Evening Post...
...good play is like a visit to the seashore. It takes John Jones out of himself while he cries and laughs at 'Cyrano de Bergerac', and it leaves him a finer man. His soul is purged and life does not seem quite so mean as it did before. His warped mental vista has been straightened...