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Peter Ibbetson, As if to invite comparison with the Metropolitan Opera's recent production (TIME, Feb. 16), the Brothers Shubert have revived John N. Raphael's and Constance Collier's dramatization of George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson. As a libretto for Deems Taylor's music. Peter Ibbetson seemed peculiarly apt, and Joseph Urban did some notable settings for it. The Shuberts' play is not so well mounted. The fanciful story of two lovers who, parted as children, meet only in their dreams in later life and are only wholly reunited in death, is one which ; goes...
George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier's Peter Ibbetson is the story of two of fiction's fondest dreamers?Mimsey Seraskier and Peter. After an idyllic childhood with Mimsey in Paris, Peter is orphaned, goes to England to live with an uncle whose chief delights are wenching and lying about wenching. Peter leaves the uncle's house when life becomes intolerable, goes to London where he meets the beauteous Duchess of Towers?Mimsey grown up. Before they part "forever" she tells him how to "dream true," how to live in a world of fantasy...
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