Word: lysistrata
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...clothing which saucy Miss Hopkins displays in His Majesty's Car is conspicuously chic, but by no means so revealing as that in which she disported herself as Kalonika in Lysistrata. Yet the Hopkins charm is undiminished...
...LYSISTRATA-Sex, satire...
...LYSISTRATA-Extremely funny and robust satire with Miriam Hopkins, Violet Kemble Cooper, Ernest Truex. By Gilbert Seldes and Aristophanes (TIME...
...theatrical capital of the country last week moved temporarily 90 mi. southwest. The Philadelphia Theatre Association produced Aristophanes' The Lysistrata in a manner which, as the news spread, drew pilgrims and pundits from miles around. The news said that Norman Bel Geddes had designed the set; that Gilbert Vivian Seldes had adapted the script; that Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex were in the cast; that nothing so racy, so robust, so surprising had happened for years, nor often since The Lysistrata had its premiere in Athens, 2,341 years...
...Lysistrata (Fay Bainter), disgusted by 20 years of war between Athens and the cities of Sparta, Thebes and Corinth, summoned the women of these towns to meet her in Mr. Bel Geddes' rich-hued, towering Acropolis. The older women arrived first, overpowered the guards, seized the citadel and the treasury. Somewhat tardily, the sleepy-eyed belles of Athens appeared, followed by big-boned Spartan women, country girls from Thebes, light ladies from Corinth. Taken aback were they when Lysistrata proposed to end the war by pledging each woman to deny herself to husband or lover until peace should...