Word: brieux
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...play is trivial is merely to tell a lie. It is, moreover, to forget that there are such qualities as subtlety and niceness and that their effect may be quite a powerful as that produced by the shouting of a Danton. Barrie may be a greater influence than Brieux...
...first performance of the Cercle Francais plays will be given at Agassiz House Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Instead of one long play, this year there will be three short pieces, "L'Ecole des Belles-Meres," by Brieux; "L'Intruse," by Maeterlinck; and "Les Deux Sourds," by Moinaux. This first is a one-act comedy, treating the problem of a mother-in-law's position in the household of her married children. "L'Intruse," a mystical drama by Maeterlinck, is a gloomy scene, in which an old blind man seems to be aware by some supernatural power that death...
...Damaged Goods," the well-known play by Engene Brieux, will be recited by Mr. Edward A. Mead, of New York, in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock...
...Cercle Francais production, which will consist of three short plays, will be given in the Agassiz House on Monday, December 6, and in Copley Hall, Boston, on December 6, instead of December 7 and 9. The three plays are "l'Intruse" by Maeterlinck. L'Ecole des Belles-Meres" by Brieux, and "Les Deux Sourds' by Moinaux. Tickets for the performances may be obtained from Thatcher Nelson '18, Randolph 47, or at the French Relief Headquarters, 36 Boylston street, Boston at $1.50 and $1 Undergraduates of Harvard and Radcliffe may be secure tickets in the balcony for the performance in Agassiz...
...Cercle Francais production this year will consist of three one-act pieces, a mystery play, a comedy, and a farce. These are "L'Intruse," a modern mystery play, by Maeterlinck; "L'Ecole des Belles-Meres," a comedy dealing with modern French manners, by Brieux; and "Les Deux Courds," a farce by Moinaux. Two performances, one in Agassiz House on December 7, and one in Boston on December 8 or 9, will be given...