Word: lysistrata
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...were given the choice between the gas chamber and continuing to live indefinitely in this insect-ridden place, eating two bowls of soup a day and not even having plumbing, I would choose the gas chamber." Like a Teutonic Lysistrata, she offered a general recipe for ending war: "Women should inform the men that if war comes they will refuse to conceive any more children...
...funny scenes. Best is one in which Tone prepares to retire to bed with a girl who he thinks is his wife, but actually is only a friend. Evidently she is not a very good friend, and the resulting argument sounds like a carelessly glossed-over version of the "Lysistrata." Of course things turn out all right, but not before we have seen all the right of this movie genre, including a car chase and a wedding at which Tone shows up in pajamas, and escorted by a Bellevue guard...
...Lysistrata (adapted by Gilbert Seldes from the Greek of Aristophanes; produced by James Light. & Max Jelin) is built, as all the world knows, on a great satiric idea-that of having women end a long war by locking their mates out of their bedrooms until they give up fighting. Moreover, Aristophanes' lusty, ribald spirit still vibrates after 2,300 years...
...years has seen one or two changes in stage method and technique, and only a very brisk and inventive production-such as Broadway got 16 years ago with Miriam Hopkins, Ernest Truex and Sydney Greenstreet in the cast-can make Lysistrata's joke funny enough for a whole evening. Last week's all-Negro production never even got off to a promising start...
Aristophanes: Lysistrata, Birds, Clouds...