Word: rostand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story will be an important feature of Mr. Hersey's lectures. Among various topics which he will discuss are: the structure of plays, comedy, farce, melodrama, musical comedies, the "picture stage," the naturalistic settings, and the acting of Ibsen Pinero, Jones, Bernard Shaw, Barrie, Galsworthy, Augustus Thomas, and Rostand plays. These lectures are free and it is not necessary to procure any tickets. The entrance to the Lecture Hall of the Public Library is on the Boylston street side...
...members of the Dramatic Club will be the guests of Miss Maude Adams at her performance of Rostand's "Chantecler" next Tuesday evening at the Hollis Street Theatre. Miss Adams is an honorary member of the Dramatic Club, having been elected shortly after her performance of "Joan of Arc" in the Stadium in June...
Last winter Miss Maude Adams and sundry collaborators made a mosaic of various passages -- now coherent and now disjointed--from Rostand's celebrated play, "Chantecler", and set them on the stage as a pretty, if somewhat tenuous and tedious fantasia. She is now bearing this amiable little entertainment up and down the country and last evening it was to be seen on the stage of the Hollis Street Theatre...
Miss Adams keeps the title of the original piece and the first appeal of her "Chantecler", as indeed it was of Rostand's, is to the eye and to the sense of the fantastic, the unusual, the surprising, behind it. The little yellow chicks are amusing to see; so is the hen putting her head out of the basket to utter wise saws; while the retriever snuffing over the wall and the mongrel dog pawing and growling in his straw are sure to please as quickly and generally as they did last evening. So, too, with the rabbits...
...mannered diction. Others of the birds and animals were occasionally comprehensible; and the Blackbird, through the mouth of Mr. Leuers and the Dog through that of Mr. Trader, actually gave character and tang to their speeches. Sometimes there was wit but very seldom poetry in what they said. Rostand and his changing speeches, his teeming wit, his birds as wise or as foolish, as generous or as selfish as humans, were far away--fully the three thousand miles that separate Boston from Paris. Of course, there was Miss Adams instead. What more was there to ask? Fertunate Rostand, fortunate "Chantecler...