SOURCE: Spiers, A. G. H. “Reviews of Plays: Becque and Merimee at the Vieux Colombier.” Nation 105, no. 2737 (13 December 1917): 674.

In the following review, Spiers remarks favorably on the production of Becque's The Merry-Go-Round at the Theatre du Vieux Colombier.

The second bill of the Théâtre du Vieux Colombier is a delight—a delight for the eyes as well as for the mind. I shall speak later of Copeau's stage-setting and costumes; our immediate attention is required by a question raised in the review of the preceding bill: can this company present with equal soundness and skill plays of very different types?

So far as can be judged from this second programme, the answer is an incontestable affirmative. Becque's La Navette, first given at the Gymnase in 1878, is a one-act play in which figure the five A's—Antonia, the woman; her three admirers, Alfred, Arthur, and Armand, and the...