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...model of every artist's dream. "Imagine," wrote French Dramatist Henri Lavedan, "a woman with a body that suggests the perfection of Greek sculpture." "An antique marble," marveled Sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. "The Parthenon itself!" exclaimed Critic Carl van Vechten. She was America's first great dancer, Isadora Duncan...
Bardelys the Magnificent (John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman). In Which It Is Told How The Marquis de Bardelys, Favorite To His Majesty King Louis XIII, Wooed The Fair Lady Roxalanne de Lavedan On A Wager, And Won Her By True Love; And Also An Account Of How The Aforementioned Marquis de Bardelys Involved Himself In Sundry Cruel Mishaps The While Intent Upon His Naughty Errand, And Near Came By Losing His Young Head...
Some of the costumes, while often effective individually were quite inharmonious when brought into juxtaposition, though it is possible that reasonable and artistic lighting would have softened their disquieting effect. The play was set somewhat more than tolerably. The company will play without Mlle. Sorel this afternoon in Lavedan's interesting drama, "Le Duel", and close 'its Boston engagement with its third performance of "La Dame Aux Camelias" by Dumasfils, in which Mlle. Sorel is seen as Marguerite Gautier, this evening...
...afternoon at 2 o'clock the Cercle Francais gives its second and last performance of "Sire," a play in five acts, at the Copley Theatre in Boston. The play, which was very favorably received last Wednesday, is being introduced in America by the Cercle. "Sire" is reproduced from Henri Lavedan's book of the same name and has as a background of historical fact, the Revolution of 1848 in France...
...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...