Word: lysistrata
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Died. Maud Potter de Reuter Bennett, 80, Philadelphia-born arbitress of continental elegance; in Paris. She was hostess for and later wife of James Gordon Bennett Jr. in his Paris home, Versailles lodge, Beaulieu villa and on his yacht Lysistrata, journalistic aide to the absolute monarch of the New York Herald, whose feats and beats (most famed: Stanley's "discovery" of Livingstone) made journalistic history...
...time in years, President emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell '77, missed what the Bellboys' press releases claim was the sight of the century, when House Master Elliott Perkins '23, was towed across the stage by shot-putter Jack Bonner '43, dressed in diapers. It was all part of the production, "Lysistrata...
...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...
...Miss Pickford did not advocate Lysistrata's classic method...
...Lysistrata has been repeatedly revived (most recently on Broadway in Gilbert Seldes' version, 1930) because: 1). it is a classic; 2) it is smutty; 3) it is antiwar; 4) it is funny. In The Impregnable Women, Author Linklater follows his model with near-sighted intensity. Lady Scrymgeour puts a stop to the war between Great Britain and France with as much zeal and dispatch as Lysistrata put a stop to the war between Athens and Sparta. The Impregnable Women is less light-headed than either Lysistrata or Author Linklater's earlier books. It exhibits his glib facility...