Word: cyrano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coward, a man of no principles and very little honor, inconstant, an opportunist, frivolous, and Epicurean. But he was neither brute nor a fanatical hypocrite nor a lecherous beast. ... All he wanted was peace . . . the good things of this world, wealth, and fun and art and love and learning." CYRANO-Cameron Rogers-Doubleday, Doran ($3.50). THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON-Dmitri Merezhkovsky-Dutton ($3). THE PHANTOM EMPEROR: THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF NAPOLEON III- Octave Aubry-Harper ($2.50). Many U. S. citizens go to Europe. Few know any history except the Anglo-American combination. But U. S. play-goers who have...
...eternal question with me," said Walter Hampden, who appeared last week in "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Boston Opera House, "is what to do next. After that I ask myself 'How much will it cost?' and then, 'Will they come...
Asked whether he tired of performing one role for so long a time as he has played Cyrano. Mr. Hampden replied, "Fortunately the 625 odd presentations of Rostand's play that I have acted in have not been in succession. They are actually spaced over six seasons, 250 being my record for consecutive performances of Cyrano, and then I was forced to interrupt that string because of an injury resulting from my fall from a balcony...
...influence is the fact that education of a liberal sort can be pursued once more within the playhouse as well as the lecture hall. For with the end of the New York season Boston is privileged to see a few of the more noteworthy stage celebrities. Walter Hampden's "Cyrano de Bergerac" and Eva La Gallienne's Repertory company are both attractions of the very near future, and only slightly more remote is the promise of "Show Boat...
...again in A. A. Milne's slight and not too entertaining whimsy, "Meet the Prince." That frail poetic tragedy, "Paola and Francesca", replete with pretty costumes and phrases such as "the stars in palpitating cosmic passion held" has Jane Cowl in the starring role and Walter Hampden is playing "Cyrano" once more up-town at his Sixty-second Street Theatre. Margaret Anglin does valiant work in making a drama of tragic married life, "Security" convincing and next week Ethel Barry-more will come to her theatre in "The Love Duel", highly praised in its out-of-town engagements. Meanwhile...