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...Louis, on the campus of Washington University, there was much talk of inferiority complexes, much quoting of the nasal rodomontades of big-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac. A student named Theodore Hofman, 24, had killed himself. Wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

Colonial-"Cyrano de Bergerac." One performance of this musical romance will be given Friday night, November...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 10/29/1932 | See Source »

...cannot see how your proposed time limit would alter the present situation. Widener's reputation for never having books when needed is largely due to the fact that every student in History 1 or French II expects to find his copy of Lynn Thorndike or "Cyrano de Bergerac" in English waiting for him a day or so before the date set for the paper or examination. Furthermore, the number of call numbers erroneously copied is by no means small, and many students spend an hour or more in the delivery room simply because they do not put down the call...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Real and Imaginary | 2/18/1932 | See Source »

...Wilson, and J. L. Ware '30, who recitated "The Passing of Arthur" by Tennyson won the two other prizes. The 1929 competition was won with declamations of selections from older authors, such as "Orpheus and Eurydice" from Virgil's Fourth Georgic, in Latin, and a selection from "Gyrano de Bergerac." The names of those who will judge the speakers have not been announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEE WADE CONTESTANTS TO REGISTER ON MONDAY | 2/28/1931 | See Source »

...Sherriff's famed play. It is a play containing a remote love-interest, but without a woman in the cast and without the possibility of allowing the entrance of any, unless Captain Stanhope's unseen sweetheart should ride through the lines in a coach, like Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac. Furthermore, it offers no chance for photography. All the action takes place in the dugout of the officers of C Company; any scenes taken outside this setting are unnecessary. Even the scenes of trench warfare, which to stage audiences were represented by powder smells and the operation of noise- machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 21, 1930 | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

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