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...there was no stopping Sickles. When Isabella moved her "court" to Paris, Minister-to-Madrid Sickles moved there too, played host at her salon to Gustav Flaubert, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Gambetta and the French Monarchists. He decided that France, too, needed a king, and began to intrigue vigorously on behalf of his friend the Comte de Paris, whom he had met as a French observer in the Civil...
...hypnotic spell cast over him by the iron-willed, amorous Sand and sets out on a suicidal concert tour to raise money to help his people in an uprising against the Czar. Paraded across the background in a rather ludicrous attempt at historical realism are such figures as De Musset, Balzac, Pagnanini, and Franz Liszt...
Dramatic expression is inevitably more artificial than ordinary expression. By exaggerating this artificiality, Alfred de Musset's "A Door Must Be Open or Shut" makes an excellent curtain-raiser; it makes the James play appear less artificial in contrast. The French play depends for its effect largely on polish, and Thomas Gad and Evelyn Mersen have achieved the perfection that makes this dramatization of an aphorism humorous and striking...
With opening night only a week away, the Harvard Dramatic Club-Radcliffe Idler world premiere production of "Owen Wingrave," by Henry James, is entering final rehearsals for performances next Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Brattle Hall. Curtain raiser for the program is Alfred De Musset's "A Door Must Be Open or Shut...
...Harvard Dramatic Club and Radcliffe Idler will produce two one-act plays in Brattle Hall January 18, 19 and 20. The two plays, both of European authorship, are a world premiere of Henry James' "Owen Wingrave" and "A Door Must Be Either Open or Shut" by Alfred de Musset...