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Lowell House will present "The Relapse, or Virtue in Danger," by Sir John Vanbrugh, on Wednesday night, honoring President Lowell's birthday. Lowell's party and dance will begin at 8:30 p.m. tonight...
...Relapse (by Sir John Vanbrugh; produced by the Theatre Guild) reached Broadway just 254 years after it first opened in London. Among the last of the Restoration comedies, it was written to refute the first of the sentimental ones-Colley Cibber's Love's Last Shift.* Otherwise Vanbrugh wrote with small sense of purpose and merely to entertain. The play tells two barely contiguous stories: one-the frilly, mannered tale of Loveless' backsliding-is pure Restoration bawdry; the other-the lusty courtship of a panting, pent-up hoyden-is timeless low comedy. Morally, also, the play faces...
...entertainment, there is a good deal more to be said for the play's rowdy antics than for its refined depravities. But there is not too much to be said for either: time has not improved what was perhaps always the weakest of Vanbrugh's plays...
...Cibber reformed his rakish hero, Loveless, at the end: Vanbrugh wrote The Relapse to show that Loveless would not have stayed reformed. Love's Last Shift is otherwise chiefly noteworthy for having once been translated into French as La dernière Chemise de l'Amour...
...about it was write a sad little satire about a young man who, on seeing a sign reading "Shop of Romance-ment," joyfully became an apprentice -only to find that the sign really read "Shop of Roman Cement." He loved the theater - but when he met beautiful Actress Irene Vanbrugh he could think of nothing to talk about but the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. Of dazzling Actress Ellen Terry he made what was probably the most passionate declaration of his life: "I can imagine no more delightful occupation" he said, "than brushing Ellen Terry...