Word: pierrot
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...darkened theatre the blinding spotlight reveals a jazz band in Pierrot costumes. The curtain opens on gaily painted settings, and the lyric intensity of men and women who dance, love, suffer and die, to the casual irony of the bleating rhythm of saxophones...
...Pierrot the Prodigal. Not for over a year has the voice of Laurette Taylor been heard on the stage, nor was it heard when, after this long silence, she returned last week to play the title role of this pantomime by Michel Carre, to the music of Andre Wormser. Through three acts which deal with the fragile adventures of poor Pierrot who runs away with one Phrynette, returns home in tears, no player speaks a word. Miss Taylor's face is a painted mask of eternal, baffled laughter, of moon-blanched sorrow; her gestures are eloquent, her insight unfailing. George...
LOVES AND LOSSES OF PIERROT-William Griffith-Button ($2.00). The prose of this age is positive in spirit, like the prose of the 18th Century; the verse is negative, like the verse of the mid-17th Century poets whose inspiration was the English countryside rather than England. The main current of prose sweeps with the sweep of the times; its movement is, if not heroic, at least large; whereas verse slides, rebellious and cunning, against that heavier tide, like an eddy coiling back from a cataract. To find fault with contemporary lyricists because they make no attempt to reproduce...
...Theodore de Banville's verse comedy, "Le Baiser," the two parts of La Fee Urgele and Pierrot will be taken by Miss E. Ixe and Ernest Iselin...
Other plays which follow that are especially worthy of notice are Harry Wagstaff Gribble's "All Gummed Up", really delicious, though not always clear, satire; George Kelly's "Finders-Keepers", with its very human incident as a basis; and Lawrence Langner twentieth-century-Columbine-and-Pierrot play, "Matinata...