Word: plautus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Abbott swiped it from Shakespeare, Shakespeare swiped it from Plautus, and Plautus swiped it from somebody else; we will take Mr. Abbott's version any day, but it is probable that Mr. Shakespeare spent a restless evening last night...
...Boys from Syracuse" is a gay and tuneful production, and though the plot, as in Plautus' time, is somewhat innocuous, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have poured so much of the soul of modern melody into the show that their position as the foremost song writing team of musical comedy cannot be questioned; "Falling in Love," "Shortest Day in the Year," and especially "This Can't Be Love" are three of the best tunes to have appeared in many months, and the cast renders them to perfection...
...above classical simile is not quite an accurate description of the Club, since it has functioned quietly and efficiently since the brighter times in 1936 when it presented the "Mostellaria" of Plautus, also in the original tongue, to cheering crowds at the Tercentenary of which this was an official part...
...regular business of the Club is nothing compared to the activity which fills the year in which the play is given, a terminal cycle which began in 1930 with Plautus "Menaechmi" and continued with the "Philoctetes" of Sophoceles three year later...
...made a collection of ten double-faced phonograph records, illustrating selections from the finest passages of Latin prose and poetry. Each record will be accompanied by a pamphlet giving the Latin text and idiomatic translation. The price will be $2.50 each. The passages are chosen from Plautus, Lucrotius, Catullus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Ovid, Pliny, Juvonal, and Tacitus...