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Phonographs and taxis instead of the conventional violins and chaises will contribute the modern touch to the Cercle Francais production, on December 13 and 14, of Moliere's comedy of manners; "Les Precieuses Ridicules". "Moliere in modern dress" is an entirely novel experiment in the staging of French drama, by means of which the Cercle, for the first time producing its plays with entirely amateur direction, hopes to start a new trend in the presentation of classic French plays...
...Enoch Arden" or foresee at least the old pattern of passion, quarrel, and reconciliation. And since all stories are old stories, the pattern you foresaw is here, but since some never become familiar you would hardly foresee the patient, particular realism which makes this German "Enoch Arden" into living, modern truth, or guess the force of the emotion shaping the layers of incident to an ending stripped of grandiloquence. Struggling to get out of Siberia, the two comrades (there are only three people in the cast) thirst in a desert composed obviously of flour, shavings, and papier...
...Wild Duck. Before Shaw, Ibsen was the mightiest of modern playwrights. He learned about life in an apothecary's shop and looked down at it later with savage Nordic melancholy. In The Wild Duck he wrote about a man who was the enemy of most people because he told the truth, even when truth-telling was tantamount to telling tales. Gregers Werle, the son of a rich Norwegian mine-owner, suspected that his libertine father had disposed of an old mistress by marrying her to Hialmar Ekdal, the son of a man whom the libertine had ruined. Gregers Werle...
...Cercle Francais has decided to attempt a unique experiment in the presentation of "Les Precieuses Ridicules" by Moliere in modern dress and with a modernistic setting, it was announced yesterday. This is the first time that the French comedy has been so produced, and an effort has been made to change the lines of the play as little as possible to make them fit in with the new setting...
With the announcement in today's CRIMSON, the Cercle Francais indicates that it too is alive to Modern Times. Not so extreme that patrons of their dramatic production will spend the first act in vain attempts to make sense out of the doings of those upon the stage and the last two in a program-thumbing defeatism, still the members of the Cercle show a heartening discontent with mere conventional performance. The staging of seventeenth century plays in modern dress is not entirely unprecedented, but hitherto the creations of Moliere have been passed over by the managers who have...