Cyrano De Bergerac

Great Scenes from Great Plays, Starring Water Hamden. This is John Daly. Beginning tonight, the families of the Episcopal Church in your community bring you each week at this time the Episcopal Actors Guild and invite you to share the dramatic inspiration of great scenes from great plays as transcribed by famous artists of the American Theatre.

Our play tonight is Syreno de Beresurec by Edmund Roster and our star in the role of the unforgettable Cyrano, the incomparable Walter Hamden. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Daly. Mr. Hamden knowing that Cyrano has been in your repertoire for many years, I'm sure that you feel it's a great play, not for any particular age, but for all time.

Well, I'm convinced, Mr. Daly, that because of its romance, if for nothing else, Cyrano will remain forever young and forever new. But even more than that, the play's greatness lies in its power to lift us out of ourselves and so lead us toward a deeper spiritual understanding.

And for that reason I'm delighted to join with the Episcopal Actors Guild this evening in recreating two of its greatest scenes. I'm sure that the sheer nobility of Cyrano's character will illustrate the inspiration to which this new series is dedicated by the Episcopal families who sponsor it.

As you're about to step into the role itself, Mr. Hymn, what about this amazing character, Cyrano? Well, I think Rostard pictures him best through the words of one of his friends, who said that Cyrano was the best friend and the bravest soul alive, poet, swordsman, musician, philosopher.

But even with all these attributes, Cyrano becomes sad and melancholy whenever he speaks about love. Think a moment, think of me. Me whom the plainest woman would despise. me with this nose of mine that marches on before me by a quarter of an hour. Oh, I have no more illusions. Now and then, bar, I may grow tender, walking alone in the blue cool