Word: meilhac
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...given on the evening of Wednesday, December 21, at 8.15 o'clock in Jordan Hall, on the corner of Huntington avenue and Gainsborough street, Boston. The plays to be presented are Moliere's "Le Mariage Force", Francois Coppee's "Le Passant", and "L'Ete de Saint Martin", by Meilhac and Halevy. The casts remain the same. As before, the proceeds will go to the American Committee for Devastated France...
...second performance of the three plays of the Cercle Francais will be given this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Copley Theatre. The production includes "Le Mariage Force" by Moliere; "Le Passant" by Francois Coppee; and "L'Ete de la Saint Martin" by Meilhac and Halery...
...Fanny Lear," although written by Meilhac and Halevy more than fifty years ago, has a plot which is so typically modern that it appeals to the present day audience. The complications that arise are all due to the plotting of the English actress and adventuress for whom the play is named. She marries the Marquls de Norlolis in the hope of securing a high social position through the marriage of his niece to a wealthy Paris noble. Inasmuch as this niece, Genevieve, wishes to marry a young man, Callieres, who lacks the necessary social prestige, Fanny Lear finds that...
Although this play was written by Meilhac and Halevy about fifty years ago, its theme is modern and highly interesting. It deals with, the complications that arise in the life of a French family due to the plotting of a clever but unprincipled woman, Fanny Lear, the English actress and adventuress...
...result of trials held during the last week, the Cercle Francais announces that the cast for the play to be given this fall, "Fanny Lear," by Meilhac and Halevy, will be as follows: Le Marquis de Noriolis W. P. Scott '23 Birnheim Edgar Scott Occ Frondeville, Harding Scholle Occ Callieres, R. H. Thayer '23 Risley, John Boissevain '24 Bredif, Leonard Opdycke 3G. Turquet, Bancel La Farge '22 Un Domestique, Richmond Fearing '23 Pierre, Morris Duane '23 La Marquise de Noriolis Mrs. Charles S. Bird Jr. Marie de Frondeville, Miss Berthe Braggiotti Genevieve de Noriolis, Miss Francesca Braggiotti Niquette, Miss Rosamond...