Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly-formed Boston Repertory Association, in presenting its first offering, "The Road to Rome," at the Copley Theater last night, has revealed that Boston, after a lapse of some years, is again to have a first-class professional repertory group of its own. There have been, and still are, several local groups operating is Boston on a repertory basis but enjoyment of their presentations has usually required either a blind admiration for the play itself or a charitable turn of mind. The Boston Repertory group promises to ask of its audiences very little (there is even a 30 percent price...
...Road to Rome" was the first play of Robert E. Sherwood '18 and a success on Broadway in 1927. It is somewhat in the vein of his "Idiot's Delight" in that it has a comic situation set in a period of history which allows Mr. Sherwood to work in some of his anti-war feelings. It is not as forceful, bitter, or integrated as was "Idiot's Delight," nor is it as funny. Furthermore, while it shows no signs of old age, neither does it show reasons for revival...
...Sherwood has set his play in 216 B.C., at the time when Hannibal was nearing the end of his march on Rome. Hannibal didn't attack Rome when he reached it, Mr. Sherwood explains, because a certain blonde, the bored and sex-starved wife of Rome's dictator, got to him first. When Rome seems doomed, she flees the city and breaks through Hannibal's lines, because for her boredom there are the elephants and for her bed there is Hannibal. In addition to seducing him she casually persuades Hannibal of the futility of warfare, popping grapes into her month...
...From Rome, and later from Lourdes, Hlond acted as spiritual leader of Poland's 20 million Roman Catholics. In 1944 the Nazis finally arrested him. Liberated by U.S. troops, he returned to Poland. There Cardinal Hlond became known as the leading voice raised against Communism...
...Road to Rome" will be the first professional play to be staged to benefit the Annex 70th Anniversary Fund. Last year, Radcliffe's Idler Players turned over to the Fund its first-night earnings from the double production of "Lord Byron's Love Letter," and "A Phoenix Too Frequent...