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...Maurice Rostand, French author, lost a suit for plagiarism against the producers of a film The Little Match Seller which he claimed was a copy of a play he and his mother had made out of the late Hans Andersen's The Little Girl and the Matches. Besides refusing his claim, the court ordered him to pay $4,000 damages to the film producers, $600 damages to the theatre which withdrew the film when he filed his suit...
Asked whether he tired of performing one role for so long a time as he has played Cyrano. Mr. Hampden replied, "Fortunately the 625 odd presentations of Rostand's play that I have acted in have not been in succession. They are actually spaced over six seasons, 250 being my record for consecutive performances of Cyrano, and then I was forced to interrupt that string because of an injury resulting from my fall from a balcony...
Jones was awarded the Lee Wade prize of $50 for his recitation of Edmund Rostand's "Selection from Cyrano de Bergerac." The Boylston award of $50 was presented to Anastos for his delivery in the original Latin of "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice", from the Fourth Georgie by Virgil. Meyer, reciting a selection from Christopher Marlowe's "Dr. Faustus", and Greene, with Tennyson's "Ulysses", were awarded the two other Boylston prizes which had been announced as $30 each but which were yesterday increased...
...Selection from "Dr. Faustus," by Christopher Marlowe: R. H. Sharp '30: "Nine and Twenty in a Company," by Odell Shepard: J. L. Ware '30: "On the Cruiser Bill." House of Representatives, February 9, 1929, by Hon. George Huddleston: R. H. Jones '30: Selection from "Cyrano de Bergerac," by Edmund Rostand: W. A. Fowlie '31: "Blue Symphony," by J. G. Fletcher; Carleton Greene '30: "Ulysses," by Alfred Lord Tennyson: F. I. Kogos '29: "Boots," by Rudyard Kipling: M. V. Anastos '30: "The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice," from the Fourth Georgic, by Virgil: E. J. Day '31: Ecclesiastes, Chapters...
...your issue for March 4, you say, "Walter Hampden, whose heart is on nobler things, offered Rostand's sentimental hero to the sentimental U. S. Public." Allow me to say that there is no nobler thing than Cyrano. WM. LYON PHELPS...