Word: moli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Would-Be Gentleman (adapted from Moliére's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Bobby Clark; produced by Michael Todd) was for 276 years a satiric comedy. Last week it became a slaphappy farce. Adapter Clark first cut up Moliére's tale of an upstart boob who ached to shine in high society. Then Actor Clark cut up in it. The result, here & there, is as hilarious as it is heterodox. But mostly it falls flat...
...Play's The Thing. For the most part the produce of these theaters is nonpolitical. Their repertories are extremely broad. Probably nowhere in the world can you find such varied fare-on successive nights Shakespeare, Sheridan, Chekhov, Goldoni, Ostrovski, Shaw, Molière, Oscar Wilde, Gorki. Occasionally new shows about the "great patriotic war" are produced, like Leonid Leonov's Invasion, a hot and angry placard. But actors and directors take a long view and do not feel that any new plays have yet come out of the war which will live as Russian drama...
...minded. He has built up a permanent company who get no salary (only board & lodging on a comfortable farm), receive no billing (yet often turn down good paying offers). Indifferent to commercial success Hedgerow is content to pioneer with unknown playwrights and to pay tribute to great ones-Shakespeare, Molière, Shaw...
...which networks displayed their utility and virtue. Colleges listened as NBC's "Great Plays Series," successor to the Radio Guild, started off in 1938 and in 1938-39 went on a grand tour of the ages, opening with Blanche Yurka in The Trojan Women. Other items that year: Molière, Tolstoi and George Bernard Shaw's own adaptation of Back to Methuselah. In the last three years this sort of thing has been overshadowed by commercial radio theaters, the fresh work of the Columbia Workshop, variety shows...
...college because he flunked an English entrance examination and an oral intelligence test. Later someone investigated his high-school record, learned that at twelve he had read all of Shakespeare's plays and written an essay on Shakespeare in Politics; at 13 he read Hugo, Balzac, Molière and Racine (in French) and wrote book reviews for a local newspaper; at 14 he learned Spanish by himself and translated three French comedies into English; at 15 he wrote a book on geography in French literature...