Word: lear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fanny Lear" will be presented by the Cercle Francais in the Copley Theatre again this afternoon at 2 o'clock. According to a statement issued by the management last evening, every seat in the orchestra and the greater part of those in the balcony have been sold, due to the fact that the performance a week ago was so successful. All the proceeds will be given to the American Committee for Devastated France. Tickets are on sale at the Copley Theatre box office, Herrick's and the Harvard Cooperative Store...
...Fanny Lear," although written by Meilhac and Halevy more than fifty years ago, has a plot which is so typically modern that it appeals to the present day audience. The complications that arise are all due to the plotting of the English actress and adventuress for whom the play is named. She marries the Marquls de Norlolis in the hope of securing a high social position through the marriage of his niece to a wealthy Paris noble. Inasmuch as this niece, Genevieve, wishes to marry a young man, Callieres, who lacks the necessary social prestige, Fanny Lear finds that...
Never has the Cercle Francais chosen a more appropriate play than "Fanny Lear" as is clearly shown by the tremendous success of the first performance which took place yesterday at the Copley Theatre, Boston. This does not mean that the play is an easy one to act, in fact, in many ways, it is more difficult than any the Cercle has attempted in recent years: It is not a play of humorous situations and great actions but rather of a subtler type involving keen appreciation of the French language on the part of all actors. There is much repartee both...
...most fortunate in its having discovered such remarkable dramatic ability and mastery of French among the girls of Boston Society. Those who saw "Lire" in 1918 will remember how well Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird Jr. executed the leading feminine role. This year she has the title role in "Fanny Lear". Her acting is very impressive--if anything a little too much so. In some spots especially in her long dialogue with Frondeville in the third act her desire for effect makes the scene drag a little...
Many have seen the Misses Braggiotti dance on the stage but I believe this is their first appearance in drama. Surely everybody who saw Fanny Lear hopes that it will not be their last. Miss Francesca Braggiotti takes the part of the daughter of the old Marquis. She wins the audience by her graceful acting and attractive appearance on the stage. Miss Berthe Braggiotti as Marie de Frondeville is the hostess at the chateau but is also sufficiently involved in the plot to show great ability in acting in delicate situations...