Word: brieux
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...production is a risk because it is old fashioned. It is a leisurely piece with a purpose. Brieux, French author of the original, is inclined to propaganda (Damaged Goods and The Red Robe). Modern plays have hurried things up be hind the footlights. If they have a sermon to preach they take care to cast it in intensive words and action. Accused is largely argument, brilliant and searching argument to be sure, but developed in long paragraphs...
...mean that poetry is one of the data of history, is history interpreted to us from the past, written for us in the present, and predicted to us of the future; and similarly that not a few of the lessons of economics are inferable from the dramas of Brieux, Hauptmann, or Galsworthy, as well as from the paintings of Menzel...
...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...
...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...