Word: le
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production of Mollore's "Le Medecin Malgre Lui" Le Cercle Francais has maintained its tradition of giving excellent performances of the best in French drama. Playing in Brattle Hall before a matinee audience consisting mostly of school children the cast executed a really first-class interpretation of this classic of the French stage. As in the past, Boston debutantes played the female parts and rendered admirable support to the actors from Le Cercle...
...innovation this year a short, one-act play was presented as a curtain raiser. Written by a former president of the organization, it marks, according to the program, "the new policy of Le Cercle of giving French plays by American authors." While this may be an admirable policy, it should only be followed when there is a sufficiently worth-while play to make use of. This is clearly not true of "Serenade," which is a sentimental, unconvincing hodgepodge of seventeenth century intrigue and gallantry, having to do with a Cinq-Mars conspirator and two agents of Richelieu. The acting...
...Le Medecin Malgre Lui" will be repeated in Brattle Hall, together with the companion performance of "Serenade" this evening at 8.30 o'clock. "Serenade" is a political satire, written by an American...
...LE GALLIENNE (Richard) Sleeping Beauty and Other Prose Fancies...
Through the initiative of someone who wished to interest students in the French Language, and through the kindness of sponsors in Boston and Cambridge, the first French film, Le Million, was presented in the Geography Building on December first, 1931. The films, selected by an instructor, have been on the whole, excellent, though not always pleasing to the tastes of everyone. One which was the subject of criticism was the admirably directed "Marius" because the dialect of its characters was a medley of French and Italian sounds. Except for this, the films, and especially Rene Clair's, which have been...