Word: bergerac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF NAPOLEON III- Octave Aubry-Harper ($2.50). Many U. S. citizens go to Europe. Few know any history except the Anglo-American combination. But U. S. play-goers who have seen Walter Hampden act the Parisian smash of 1897, Edmond Rostand's lyrical Cyrano de Bergerac, have gained an inkling of what 17th Century France was like. For swaggering, fork-tongued Gascon Cyrano actually lived, and in those melodramatic days. The Rogers biography reveals the real Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-55) as "swordsman-libertine-man-of-letters." Author of Walt Whitman the Magnificent Idler, Biographer Rogers...
...eternal question with me," said Walter Hampden, who appeared last week in "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Boston Opera House, "is what to do next. After that I ask myself 'How much will it cost?' and then, 'Will they come...
...fact that education of a liberal sort can be pursued once more within the playhouse as well as the lecture hall. For with the end of the New York season Boston is privileged to see a few of the more noteworthy stage celebrities. Walter Hampden's "Cyrano de Bergerac" and Eva La Gallienne's Repertory company are both attractions of the very near future, and only slightly more remote is the promise of "Show Boat...
Jones was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 for his recitation of Edmund Rostand's "Selection from Cyrano de Bergerac." The Boylston award of $50 was presented to Anastos for his delivery in the original Latin of "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice", from the Fourth Georgie by Virgil. Meyer, reciting a selection from Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus", and Greene, with Tennyson's "Ulysses", were awarded the two other Boylston prizes which had been announced as $30 each but which were yesterday increased...
...Meyer '30: Selection from "Dr. Faustus," by Christopher Marlowe: R. H. Sharp '30: "Nine and Twenty in a Company," by Odell Shepard: J. L. Ware '30: "On the Cruiser Bill." House of Representatives, February 9, 1929, by Hon. George Huddleston: R. H. Jones '30: Selection from "Cyrano de Bergerac," by Edmund Rostand: W. A. Fowlie '31: "Blue Symphony," by J. G. Fletcher; Carleton Greene '30: "Ulysses," by Alfred Lord Tennyson: F. I. Kogos '29: "Boots," by Rudyard Kipling: M. V. Anastos '30: "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice," from the Fourth Georgic, by Virgil: E. J. Day '31: Ecclesiastes, Chapters...