Word: commedia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grave Alice smiled with pleasure. She presented Il Duce with a copy of her father's translation of Dante's Divinia Commedia-a work that had aroused enthusiasm at Harvard in the 80's and had given a great impulse to the study of Dante in the U. S. Signor Mussolini gravely thanked her for thus honoring him and, in a cordial conversation, expressed his great admiration for her poet-father...
...Harlequin, Harry Bingham reaches heights seldom attained by man. To be Thespian, he positively soars. For it is not everyone who can see through the mazes of the commedia dell' arte into the truth at which Gozzi is driving: that comedy is buffoonery, that buffoonery is life...
Truly, enough in the panegyrical man nor has been stated to convince anyone that this is for once the Dramatic Club at its best. The lighting under the supervision of Kandell Foss, the scenic effects, all are commendable. So for anyone who H'tes to see the old commedia without going to Scollay Square, there is but one direction to take. And that across the ice from the new home of tersienore and a ham Sandwich...
...Theatre of the Revolution and Semperante Theatre of Improvization (both founded in 1920). Respectively a repertoire of post-revolutionary plans and a series of dramas improvised on the spot by the actors, in the manner of the ancient Italian Commedia dell Arte...
...startled, as we are starled all through the other acts, but we are not long in finding ourselves quite at home in the new phantastic milien. With a surprise that George M. Cohan might envy, we find Harlequin King again and the ancient, beloved puppets of the commedia dill acte up to their pranks once more. "Hail the carnival!" shouts the resurrected Pierrot, "Beat the drums! Ring the bells! shine triumphantly, sun! Dance golden stars!" But when the play is over these puppets refuse to be packed away in their boxes. For they have come to life...