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...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, lose...
Last year's winner was R. H. Jones '30, who gave a selection from "Cyrano de Bergerac," while M. V. Anastos '30 won the Boylston prize for his rendering of "Orpheus and Eurydice" from Virgil's fourth Georgic in Latin. Third and fourth places were taken by H. G. Meyer '30 with a selection from Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" and Carleton Green '30, who recited Tennyson's "Ulysses...
...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...