Word: bergerac
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Dates: during 1899-1899
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...clock. The tickets entitling the holder to a reserved seat are $1.50. The new edition of Le Pedant Jone by H. B. Stanton '00 will be sold at the door. This edition contains, besides the text of the play, a story of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac and his works...
...wholesome. Two lovers quarrel and separate, but are again joined at a crisis in the life of the heroine. Simple and straightforward, "Ruth" is the type of story that the undergraduate reader thoroughly enjoys. Very different from "Ruth," is J. P. Sanborn's frail story, "Conclusions." Like Cyrano de Bergerac, the writer may be said to "set forth to capture a star and then to stop to pick a flower of rhetoric." In style and treatment, "Conclusions" is good and clever. But it has the tone of the over-done, and throughout it there is constant striving for effect...
College plays are very popular and always have been, for colleges were the early homes of plays. This performance, however, brings a new era of French plays into Harvard, as Cyrano de Bergerac is the first writer of his kind who has been reproduced on the college stage. The selection of this play is an excellent one for two reasons; because it was written by Cyrano de Bergerac and because it deals with one of the leading French colleges. The introduction of the book is probably the better part, as it gives a clear idea of Cyrano himself...
This afternoon at 4.30 Professor de Sumichrast will give a lecture in the Fogg Museum on the life of Cyrano de Bergerac, and his play, Le Pedant Joue, which is to be produced by the Cercle Francais. The performances of the play will be held on Thursday and Saturday in Brattle Hall, Cambridge, and on Monday and Tuesday of next week in Copley Hall, Boston. The lecture will be open to the public, and seats will be reserved for the patronesses of the play until...
...Cercle, and to representatives of the press. Only those who have received invitations will be admitted. The book of the play which has been published by the Cercle, containing the text of Le Pedant Joue as adapted for the performance, and a sketch of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac by H. B. Stanton '00, will be sold at the door on the evenings of the dress rehearsals and performances. The music for the play will be rendered by the Bohemian Orchestra...