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...Behrman (The Second Man) wrote the play. Jed Harris, the ill-shaven producer whose perhaps somewhat mercenary pride recently forbade him to present Ina Claire in The Gaoler's Wench, was inclined to think well of Serena. He ordered Robert Edmond Jones to design some sets and procured Ruth Gordon with her soft, broken voice and her abruptly delicate gestures to play the part of a lady who "possessed every imaginable charm of appearance and behavior...
...Assomoir (1877) sold 100,000 copies. This drab vignette of lowly Parisian life rooted naturalism in the literary soil. Zola married an intelligent, passionate woman. He met weekly with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Ivan Turgeniev. He was famed, fat crammed with food. He worked incessantly ? news articles, plays, novels. His villa at Medan. outside Paris, grew in bulk and reputation. Its owner was excoriated, saluted, accused, defended. Madame Zola remained childless...
Cyrano de Bergerac's verses were bright, rousing, full of Gascon gallantries. His rapier was rapid. But his nose was freakishly long, disfiguring. Therefore he felt frustrated in his love affair with Roxanne, and Edmond Rostand's famed heroic comedy turns into tragedy. Cyrano has made theatrical history in the versions of Constant Coquelin and Richard Mansfield. In the. U. S., of late years, Walter Hampden has honored both himself and the role. On Christmas night he revived Cyrano, scored again. Ingeborg Torrup was a new, petite, luscious Roxanne...
...Great Election Banquet," however, Mr. Edmond's contribution, is of another order entirely. The banquet of the Democrats of Oneida country, all fourteen of them with the addition of the stage driver who voted both Democrat and Federalist, a banquet which culminated with the practical destruction of the Baptist steeple and the absolute inundation of all the guests to the great discomfort of the Federalists who had to foot the bill and stay sober, is a pretty homeric tale. If (in the manner of Time's advertisements) you are curious to know who shouted 'Oysthersh' from under the table...
...that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs, politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall Street, society. It is all very bitter; but there is action, noise and color, settings by Robert Edmond Jones, staccato staging by Richard Boleslavsky. These first two acts are the outstanding curiosity of the current Manhattan season. The third act is a tedious sermon showing that happiness is just around the corner for those who renounce gold & greed. Author Pollock calls the whole thing a "verbal cartoon...