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There are compensations. The picture has been flashily produced in a slather of Eastman Color that often looks like violet shaving cream. It has been smartly directed by Michael (Cyrano de Bergerac) Gordon. And it presents, in the part of Rock's jealous rival, one of the funniest young men in movies today: a sort of Ivy League Dracula named Tony Randall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Ambitious as such fledgling U.S. enterprises are, they barely hold a candle to the soaring prices now being fetched in Paris. An edition of 197 copies of Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyages Fantastiques, illustrated by Bernard Buffet, recently sold out within 48 hours at prices up to $15,500. More ambitious yet was Don Quichotte illustrated by Salvador Dali with "divine splashes" from an ink-filled snail shell. For the regular edition, Publisher Joseph Foret set the price at a mere $300 a copy. But one copy, billed as "the most expensive book in the world," was tagged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: WORDS & PICTURES: The New Art Portfolios | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...American stage; in Toronto. Born in the Canadian House of Parliament (where her father, as Speaker of the House of Commons, had quarters), Actress Anglin began in a bit part on Broadway, achieved fame overnight in 1898 as Roxanne in Richard Mansfield's production of Cyrano de Bergerac, made her greatest popular success (in 1906) in William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Cyrano de Bergerac continues to receive an excellent performance at Wellesley through this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Also Recommended... | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

...trips will also be available as usual for the Wellesley Theatre-on-the Green's performance of Cyrano de Bergerac both this evening and Saturday. The bus will leave Thayer Gate at 7:30 p.m. for the Wellesley trip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seats Remain on Bus for Stratford | 8/8/1957 | See Source »

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