Word: bergerac
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...plots this time in trousers. And if Richelieu is becoming feeble, Mazarini "the snake replaces the eagle" is on hand to put obstacles in the way of redoubtable Gascon gentlemen. The three original musketeers are missing but the loss is slight when their places are taken by Cyrano de Bergerac and the young Chevalier Tancrede, whose antecedents will surprise the reader, but whose identity, like the plot of detective plays, is not to be divulged by the reviewer...
...walking gentleman" in Sir Frank R. Benson's company in 1901 at Brighton, England. In recent years he has been chiefly associated with classic roles; presenting one of the most widely known Hamlets in the U. S., and the most popular present-day revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, generally considered his best role. He has his own Manhattan theatre in which he presents revivals and occasional new plays in a gradually widening repertory. Last year his play was Caponsacchi, based on Browning's The Ring and the Book. This season he plays Ibsen's An Enemy...
great liar is entirely ignoble. J. Daniel Thompson, for instance, pretends for. the sake of his daughter's admiration, to be understudy to Richard Mansfield in Cyrano de Bergerac, whereas in reality he clanks chains and chews raw meat in the role of Wild Man at the 14th Street Palace of Living Wonders. Before that he was a vender of snake oil and Indian cure; and his compound sentences, derived from long professional practice, are rolled with an unctuous grandeur by George Hassell, who plays him to the last shake of his ponderous belly. You have the feeling that...
...Unquestionably France's most brilliant poet-dramatist, author of Cyrano de Bergerac, L'Aiglon, Chantecler...
...current Senate's "investigating" record was defended by a testy, strutting Cyrano de Bergerac. "A great nose," the clown trumpeted through his own, "indicates a great Senate. . . . This convexity, this pimple of curiosity, this wart of circumspection, is indeed worthy of jest. I say these things about the Senate's nose lightly enough myself, but I shall allow none other to utter them...