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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...
...Cercle Francais will give the second of two public performances of "Les Romanesques," by Edward Rostand, in Jordan Hall, Boston, this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Tickets at $1.50 and $1 each may be obtained at Herrick's, at Schoenhof's bookstore, 128A Tremont street, and at the box office in Jordan Hall just before the performance...
...Cercle Francals will give its first performance of "Les Romanesques," by Edmond Rostand, in Jordan Hall, Boston, this evening at 8.15 o'clock. Tickets at $1.50 and $1 may be obtained at Herrick's at Schoenhof's bookstore, 126 Tremont street, and at the box office, Jordan Hall, just before the performance. The other performance will be also held in Jordan Hall on Saturday night...
...Romanesques" is one of Rostand's best works and is considered superior to "I'Aigion" by some crities. The following is a short synopsis of the plot...