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...Cercle Francais on December 18 and 20. In the rehearsals the cast is being coached Edouard D'Armand, of the Conservator Nationale de Paris, who also directed the production of the three plays which the Cercle presented last year. "L'Aventurier" is a sympathetic character-study an adventurer. The plot turns on the story of a world-traveller who comeback to France and redeems himself after a wandering and somewhat disreputable existence in Africa...
...play was read last night in Phillips Brooks House by P. F. Reniers '16, before a large audience. It is a four-act play dealing with politics and purity, and fairly bristling with dramatic atmosphere. A brief sketch of the plot follows...
...Hardy in its stilted stage directions ("Had there not been something peculiarly ingratiating about this man, I should have maintained my custom of refusing these highway requests at all times. As it was, I stopped to argue with him,") which are inconsistent with the general style and plot. But the piece breaks into splendid originality in two speeches of Tom Gowan, the lovelorn murderer, and in the conclusion, which is far better than either the sentimentalism of the one or the fatalism of the other of the two authors whom Mr. Gowdy is consciously or unconsciously imitating. Again, many...
...otherwise impressive scenes. Why in a play so impressionistic as this, a play where the attention is focused not upon the scenery, but on the players, should this attention of ours be diverted by a wavering tree trunk, grotesque lillies jutting out from a still more grotesque grass plot, and other little details too numerous to be mentioned. Yet this is only a mild form of censure, the entire performance as a whole is more than satisfying...
...Dartmouth Dramatic Association will present "Naughty Nero," a musical comedy, for the first time next Saturday night. The plot of the play deals with the age when Nero was at the height of his power. The old emperor, through his numerous extra vangances, has gone deeply into debt, and is unable to meet his obligations. Cinema Filmus, a moving picture man from Athens, relieves the embarrassing situation when he requests permission to purchase the moving picture rights for the burning of Rome. Nero, impressed by the magnitude of the offer, readily agrees to the purpose and the destruction of Rome...