Word: lysistrata
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...Lysistrata is of course Aristophanes' ancient comedy of feminism. The Russians have chosen to exhibit an extremely rowdy and briskly amusing version. If the police commissioner could understand it there would certainly be difficulties. But he cannot nor can much of the population, and what does anybody care about the morals of anyone so obviously peculiar as to speak Russian...
...settings, its own chorus masters and conductors, and attended by one Yasloff Gremislavsky, "the World's Greatest Living Master of Makeup." The Studio, a guild which comprises actors, danceVs and operatic stars, will present its full repertoire, including: Lecocq's The Daughter of Madame Angot; Aristophanes' Lysistrata, with music on Greek themes by the modern Russian composer, Reinhold Gliere; Carmencita and the Soldier, with the Bizet music for Carmen, a wholly new libretto drawn directly from Merimee's story by the Russian poet, Constantin Lipskerpff; Offenbach's La Perichole; a triple bill from Pushkin entitled...
...Additions to E. P. Dutton & Co.'s famed "Today and Tomorrow" series, at $1.00 the copy: Lysistrata by Anthony M. Ludovici, Hypatia by the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand (Dora) Russell...