Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even for those lucky enough to have gotten into one performance, the other productions probably still remain a mystery. Those who saw the program that included Les Fausses Confidences and Les Adieux were decidedly the luckiest. But no one having gone just one night will really have a bad word for M. Barrault and company. The production of the Misanthrope was exciting, if only because of the gracefulness and wit of French acting. While this story of the overly just and truthful man in a foppish society is meaningful and often full of poetic beauty, the plot is not wholly...
...Les Fausses Confidences the actors thoroughly enjoyed convincing us that love is hindered neither by sincerity nor by some calculation. Everthing turns out well in the end and M. Barrault as the well-meaning troublemaker, Dubois, was at his best relying on mime and expressive gestures. There is a clear and consistent comic freedom in the Marivaux which allowed the company to show off its virtuoso technique...
...Les Adieux that proved that M. Barrault's purpose is more than just putting on plays. In this most delightful conclusion of the Company's program, the whole cast appeared in formal dress to recite poetry and display their art in its purest form, without scenery, costumes or an imposing vehicle. They ran the gamut from the most subtle verbal effects to no words at all. Barrault's final pantomimes were the epitome of freedom within a highly stylized form. Compared to Marcel Marceau his mime was less delicate and less detailed but it had energy, spontaneity and excitement that...
Died. Lord Vansittart, 75, versatile, vituperative onetime (1930-38) Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, poet, playwright and polemical pamphleteer, longtime foe of German aggression; of lung congestion; in Denham, England. Vansittart established himself as a young-man-about-letters by concocting a French comedy (Les Pariahs) at 21, getting it produced successfully in Paris; as head of the British Foreign Office, attacked Naziism, got kicked upstairs (to the sinecure of chief diplomatic adviser to the Foreign Secretary) by appeasement-minded Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Vansittart admitted he was anti-German ("Germans have killed, tortured, starved, plundered...
...Paul Kelley in the line and Ed Owen and John Copeland alternating with Dan Ullyot and Dick McLaughlin at defense. Captain Jim Bailey will be the starting goalie. At second line will be Bob McVey, Dick Fischer and Dave Vietze. The third line of Maurice Balboni, Bud Higgenbottom, and Les Duncan is expected to see more action than usual...