Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Servir" is a war drama in two acts, by Henri Lavedan, and "Edgar et sa Bonne," by Labiche, is a one-act farce. The "Servir" was first produced in Paris in 1913 at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and, with the foremost of modern French actors, M. Gintry, in the chief role, was highly successful. It was written while the trouble between France and Morocco was still going on, and, very appropriately to the talk of today, it shows the struggle between a militarist father of the old school and a pacifist son with modern ideas. Although the play was composed...
...Cercle Francais spring production, which is the first ever undertaken by that organization, will consist of two plays, a two-act war drama, "Servir," by Henri Lavedan, and a one-act farce, "Edgar et sa Bonne," by Labiche. There will be one performance only, which will be staged in the Copley Theatre on May 11 at 8 o'clock. Dancing in the Copley Theatre ballroom will follow the performance. Tickets are now on sale at $1.50, $1, 75 cents, and 50 cents each at Herrick's and the Co-operative Branch, or may be procured from A. L. Carroll...
...given in English, "The Book of Job" is presented in the Grecian manner, as the presence of the Greek choregus and chorus in the cast indicate. There is a prologue and an epilogue recited by the choregus, who is the leader of the chorus during the progress of the drama. Settings for the play are designed in the modern fashion, patterned to some extent after those used by Granville Barker in his production of Euripides' "The Trojan Women" in the Stadium a year...
That Sir Johnson Forbes-Robertson has become one of the most talented Hamlets of the modern drama is not surprising when his natural qualifications are considered. Son of an art critic, he directed his education to the acquisition of an artist's technique, studying in the Royal Academy School of England, and also in France. It was not until his twenty-first year that he changed his career from painting to the stage. By the success of his debut (1874) in "Mary Stuart" it became evident that the stage was his natural field...
Though Forbes-Robertson specialized in the drama, it was not at the expense of his interest in painting. In numerous productions since 1895 at the Lyceum, his London theatre, he has put his artistic technique to practical use; and the scene for one of his most powerful productions was the work of his own brush. Sanders Theatre is indeed privileged in being the stage of America's farewell performance by the most versatile of Hamlets...