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True, the traditional plague of musical comedy--weak book--is present. The dialogue is kept to a minimum, however, and the plot is a good one, as anyone from Plautus to Giradonx would testify. And what the book lacks in comedy is more than made up for in the excellence of Porter's music and lyrics, and the lavishness of Lemnel Ayer's decor...
...Classical Players, putting amazing enthusiasm into the work of their "poor dead author" Plautus, have come up with another sparkling evening of Roman comedy. Imaginative acting, skilful direction, and just enough pantomime to help foreigners understand what is happening have brought to life a plot involving a pimp, his ward, her lover, and an ingenious slave who wants to unite the lovers and demonstrate his own shrewdness...
...prove that the actions of the ancients could be as irregular as their verbs, the Classical Players will muster in Agassiz Theatre at 8:30 p.m. tonight to open a three-day run of "Pseudolus," rowdy comedy by T. Maccius Plautus, first produced...
Harvard and Radcliffe Classical Players schedule their production of T. Maccius Plautus's ribald comedy, which was first played in 191 A.D., for March 2, 3, and 4 in Agassiz Theater...
...Plautus, done in the right spirit, can't fail to be amusing. You don't have to be a student of the Classics, you don't really need Latin at all to appreciate and guffaw at his comedy. The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy have been successful at the same type of comedy for years, a slapstick variety with humor arising from situation and double-meanings rather than from plot intricacies. That is the type of humor in "The Braggart Warrior." Briefly, a soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another...