Word: pedantic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second performance of "Le Pedant Joue" was given Saturday evening in Brattle Hall before an appreciative audience. As on Thursday evening, the most successful part of the performance proved to be the ballets. F. W. Morrison '00, as the stupid peasant, was again very pleasing. The third performance will be held in Copley Hall, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The final performance will take place tomorrow evening at the same hour and place...
...first performance of "Le Pedant Joue" was given last night in Brattle Hall. Considerable credit is due H. B. Stanton '00 and his assistants who have taken a crude, old fashioned play, cut it down, and remodelled it into something fit for the modern stage. But more remodelling and curtailing might have further improved the performance. Throughout the first and second acts there was a tedious succession of long monologues and one-sided conversations in which the speakers, as a rule, overacted their parts. Meanwhile the rest of the cast stood inactive and apparently inattentive...
...first public performance of Le Pedant Joue will be given by the Cercle Francais, tonight in Brattle Hall, at 8 o'clock. The tickets entitling the holder to a reserved seat are $1.50. The new edition of Le Pedant Jone by H. B. Stanton '00 will be sold at the door. This edition contains, besides the text of the play, a story of the life of Cyrano de Bergerac and his works...
...cast: Granger, pedant, A. S. Dixey '02. Chateaufort, capitan, H. B. Stanton '00. Mathieu Gareau, paysan, F. W. Morrison '00. De La Tremblaye, gentilhomme amoureux de la fille du Pedant, B. F. Bell '00. Charlot Granger, fils du Pedant, R. Goelet '02. Corbineli, valet de jeune Granger, fourbe, A. S. Hills '00. Pierre Paquier cuistre Pedant, faisant le plaisant, J. A. Dix '02. Fleury, cousin du Pedant, R. W. Goelet '02. Manon, fille du Pedant, R. B. Bowler '02. Genevote, soeur de M. de la Tremblaye, F. Watson '02. Cuistres...
...extremely clever writer, but by no means a genius. He has neither the touch not power of staging plays which most French writers possess, but he sets his works forth in a way that have an undeniable charm and grace. It was Cyrano's idea, in "Le Pedant Joue," to make his audiences laugh, and he has succeeded admirably. The play is similar to, but on a much higher plane than the modern vaudeville...