Word: giradoux
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...Harvard Dramatic Club has a treat in store for you at Sanders Theater this weekend. "Amphitryon 38" is a sparkling theaterpiece that has delighted audiences and playwrights through thirty-eight versions, beginning with that of Plautus--down through Moliere, Dryden, to the late Jean Giradoux. It has possibly become more polished each time, for this most recent telling could hardly glisten more than it does...
...Amphitryon 38," which is adapted from a farce by Jean Giradoux, reveals the philanderings of Jupiter, the master of the gods, who woos and conquers Alkmena, the wife of Amphitryon, the famous Theban general...
...assisted by Major de Reviers; Captain Dupont, and Lieutenant Morize who had been connected with the University R. O. T. C., and also be Captain H. Amann, Captain Loriot, Lieutenant Jean Jegou and Lieutenant Rene Bose who were detailed to Cambridge by the French military authorities at Washington. Lieutenant Giradoux, one of the original six officers of the French Military Mission, returned to France in the middle of August after a sickness brought on by his several wounds...
Lieutenant Giradoux delivered a lecture to the Corps last night on the grenade. After explaining in detail the various kinds of grenades, the method of their use on the offensive, on the defensive as well as in raids was described...