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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor de Sumichrast lectured yesterday afternoon on the coming Cercle Francais play. He said in part...
This afternoon at 4.30 Professor de Sumichrast will give a lecture in the Fogg Museum on the life of Cyrano de Bergerac, and his play, Le Pedant Joue, which is to be produced by the Cercle Francais. The performances of the play will be held on Thursday and Saturday in Brattle Hall, Cambridge, and on Monday and Tuesday of next week in Copley Hall, Boston. The lecture will be open to the public, and seats will be reserved for the patronesses of the play until...
...dress rehearsal of the Pedant Joue will be held in Brattle Hall tonight at 8.15. This rehearsal will be open to the active, honorary and graduate members of the Cercle, and to representatives of the press. Only those who have received invitations will be admitted. The book of the play which has been published by the Cercle, containing the text of Le Pedant Joue as adapted for the performance, and a sketch of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac by H. B. Stanton '00, will be sold at the door on the evenings of the dress rehearsals and performances...
...story deals with the troubles of Granger, a pedantic principal of the college of Beauvais at Paris. The first act opens with an interview between Granger and Chateaufort, the swash buckler of the play, who comes to ask for the hand of Manon, the pedant's daughter. Granger does not want him, wishing to marry Manon to a rich peasant named Gareau, so he tells Chateaufort that he has a rival in La Tremblaye, a gentleman living near the college of Beauvais. Chateaufort goes away breathing threats of vengeance against La Tremblaye. Granger then turns to his own love affairs...
...brawl. Genevote is to agree to marry Granger on condition of being allowed to go through the marriage ceremony with a supposed corpse first, and at the proper time Charlot is to resuscitate. Paquier has overheard the scheme, and the plan fails. As a last resort Corbineli makes the play he was ordered to prepare, a comedy in which Granger is induced to sign a supposedly sham contract between Charlot and Genevote, which is eventually proved to be genuine. The play ends with the happiness of the lovers, Charlot and Genevote, and the discomfiture of the doting Granger...