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...Seventeenth-Century Moliére (real name: Jean Baptiste Poquelin) might have been a little startled at what has happened to his doltish M. Jourdain, who was already an outrageous enough butt. Everybody swindled and snickered at him-the dancing masters and fencing masters hired to teach him the graces; the count who was to present him at court; the marquise with whom he craved a modish liaison. But Moliére's butt-who suddenly learned with rapture that he had been speaking prose all his life-was a passably solid character. When Zany Clark gets through with...
...great majority of Moliere was intended primarily as satire of the seventeenth century French court. As such, his comedies are among the greatest ever written. They satirize, however, a target completely insignificant to modern audiences, and they satirize it with humor typically French and almost entirely unintelligible to the theatre goer of today...
Such translation not only handcuffs any production but raises a strong doubt as to the value of presenting any foreign play unless it has been translated by a man who himself possesses literary imagination and ability. If the Dramatic Club wants to play seventeenth century comedy of manners let it delve into Wycherly, Congreve, or Etherege...
...campaign, which started on October 1, will continue through the seventeenth of the month...
Pilgrims & Progress. "Picasso lives in ... a magnificent seventeenth-century house. . . . Visitors cross a spacious courtyard, climb a dark winding tiled staircase to the third floor. ... A long narrow anteroom . . . contains a tall iron stove . . . canvases, paint-boxes, pieces of Negro sculpture, sketches . . . and two rows of kitchen chairs. ... A number of these chairs were occupied [by] Communist politicians . . . art dealers, artists as well as miscellaneous pilgrims...