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CYRANO DE BERGERAC - Walter Hampden again reviving Rostand's classic...
...Last Night of Don Juan. Edmond Rostand is best known in the U. S. for Cyrano de Bergerac, which Walter Hampden has been performing with such marked success on and off for the past two seasons. This play of his has never before been done in the U. S. It is now given at the Greenwich Village Theatre in the translation of Sidney Howard, and provides a curiously contradictory evening...
...Caillaux, jaunty debt negotiator, landed at Havre, he twirled his cane in airy greeting to noted Poet-Playwright Maurice Rostand, who was waiting on the pier. Pressed for a statement, he declared: "We parted from the American delegates on the most cordial and sympathetic terms. . . . We shall resume our negotiations in good time." Implored to say something serious he took refuge in the ultimate cliché: "All I can say is that American women are charming...
Cyrano de Bergerac. With this film, it is again indicated that good plays do not necessarily make good cinemas. Also the casual cinema adapter is vaguely vindicated. For this version of the Rostand comedy- made by Italians-follows the lines of the original like a silk stocking. Thus is eliminated virtually all the comedy of line. The cinema is essentially the drama of movement. Cyrano sits still too often. Yet, as a faithful transcription of one of the greatest of modern comedies, the venture deserves attention from thoughtful cinema-goers-particularly those in. the waste places where otherwise the comedy...
...Aiglon", the drama of Edmond Rostand, is the play that has been chosen by the Dramatic Club for presentation on Saturday night. The performance will have nothing to do with the new Yale School of Dramatic Art, headed by Professor Baker, and is being presented by the Yale Dramatic Association unaided. The translation used will be an original one prepared by Basil Davenport, a Yale Junior...