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...Avare is one of Moliere's greatest satires, comparable to "Les' Precieuses Ridicules" and similar criticisms of the evils of the day. "L'Avare", as its name suggests, is directed against the misers with whom the great satirist came in contact. Its French is especially well chosen and lends itself easily to the stage...
...rules England?" asked a Stuart satirist. "The King rules England, of course." "But who rules the King?" "The Duke." "Who rules the Duke?" "The Devil." And so it is public opinion that rules in a democracy, and propaganda makes public opinion, and the politicians make the propaganda...
Americana. The success of the concentrated and often semiprofessional revues of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Theatre Guild juniors has inspired a strictly professional show of the same dimensions. J. P. McEvoy, newspaper satirist and author of The Potters, wrote the sketches, and a vast variety of folk, including George Gershwin, Con Conrad, Philip Charig and Henry Souvaine, the music. Roy Atwell and a vaudeville performer named Lew Brice are the leading performers and the show appears at the tiny Belmont Theatre. It is a small but wiry show, often immensely entertaining...
...Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, soldier of fortune retired to devote himself to literature, who, weary of the frothy, extravagant romances that had so long been the vogue in Spain, set himself to mock his scribbling brothers with a tale more fantastic than any that had been written. A great satirist, Cervantes?a greater poet. He took for his hero a knight as mad as the northwind, put him through incredible paces, made him withal so real, so courageous, so pathetic, so magnificent that not for three centuries has one been found to rival...
Extremely sage bets: Inventor Marconi; Soldier-patriot-poet-playwright d'Annunzio; Composer Toscanini (director of La, Scala, Milan, "The Foremost Opera House of Europe"); Conductor Mascagni (composer of the score for Cavalleria Rusticana); Philosopher-satirist-playwright Pirandello (author of Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play hailed with acclaim on Broadway); Statesman Mussolini and as many Fascist statesmen as are able to get in under the limit of 60 Immortales...