Word: pedantic
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Dates: during 1899-1899
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...Cercle Francais. Lecture: Le Pedant Joue. Professor de Sumichrast. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...Cercle Francais has arranged for Professor de Sumichrast to deliver a lecture on "Le Pedant Joue," supplemented by a life of Cyrano de Bergerac, the author of the play. The lecture is open to the public and will be held on Tuesday, December, 12 at 4.30, in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum...
...first dress rehearsal of the Cercle play for this year, Bergerac's "Le Pedant Joue," will be held this evening at 7 o'clock in Brattle Hall. This will probably be the first time that the play has been put on the stage, although large parts have been taken bodily from it by more popular authors, especially Moliere. The original play contained five acts, but in order to bring it into suitable compass for amateur theatricals it has been found necessary to cut it down to three acts. This work was done by M. C. H. Bernard...
...Pedant Joue," which is going to be performed by the Cercle Francais this year, will not be produced as originally written by Cyrano de Bergerac, but in a modified form. H. B. Stanton '00, president of the Cercle, revised the play, and has reduced it in length from five to three acts. The play has probably never been put on the stage before, although large passages have been borrowed from it by Moliere. The fact that it was written by Cyrano de Bergerac, whose name Rostand has made so famous, also adds to its interest...
...performances of the Cercle Francais play, Le Pedant Joue will be held as follows: Graduates' night at Brattle Hall Dec. 12; Cambridge performances, at Brattle Hall, Dec. 14 and 16; Boston performances, at Copley Hall...