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...most people, Greek and Roman drama is something laid away in mothballs. Yet when, with modern tailoring, it is taken out and worn, most people admire it. When Broadway roared last season at Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, it was really patting some forgotten Greek dramatist on the back for his Amphitryon 1. When Broadway flocked to O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, it was saluting Aeschylus' Oresteia with a Down-East accent. And given practically straight, Aristophanes' lewd, witty Lysistrata proved a Broadway...
...Play. Amphitryon 38, adapted for the Lunts by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman from the French farce of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux, is approximately the 38th dramatic version of the Theban legend of how all-powerful Zeus (Roman Jupiter) had to assume the mental as well as the physical aspects of Amphitryon before Alcmena would bed him. The Lunts studied the play, which they were quick to see contained one of their favorite situations, for several months before trying it out last June in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Later they took it to Baltimore, Washington and Cleveland, to whose critics the play...
Aside from the repertoire of 20 plays which have been presented in the past and will be put on again, seven new pieces will be on view during Civic Repertory's coming season: Siegfried by Jean Giraudoux; Alison's House by Susan Glaspell (based on the life of Emily Dickinson); Alice in Wonderland; Gruach and Ardvor-lich's Wife by Gordon Bottomley; Noble Prize by Hjalinar Bergman; Rosmersholm by Ibsen...
...Author. France, patron of the arts, frequently offers her young authors the travel and leisure of the diplomatic service (Paul Claudel, Jean Giraudoux). Author Morand has been attached to the embassies of London, Rome, Madrid, and finally Bangkok. To and from this last post he traveled by way of America, Japan, India, collecting data for his latest book. Born in Russia, of French parents (1888), he was educated at Oxford, studied law and political science in Paris, is a prolific writer, notably of post-War character sketches. Sleek of face and hair, he looks still younger than...
...indolent young clubman, assisted by the usual Watson and a splendidly upstage butler named Bunter, at last discovers the solution not only to this problem but others involving much mystery and confusion. The best thing of its kind since The Red House Mystery. MY FRIEND FROM LIMOUSIN−Jean Giraudoux−Harper ($2.00). Awarded the Prix Balzac for 1922, this highly original and satiric novel, should prove a most acceptable literary plate of anchovy sandwiches for those who like a certain fantastic grace and suppleness in their reading matter. The plot−involving a Frenchman picked up on the battlefield...