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Long before a lovable guy named Durante made the nose a significant part of the human architectural scheme in America, a French playwright. Edmond Rostand, had given the world another magnificent proboscis attached to one of the most swashbuckling, colorful and heroic characters in dramatic history. Cyrano de Bergerac. Portrayed on the American stage in past years by such grand actors as Richard Mansfield and Walter Hampden, and. most recently, by Jose Ferrer, the fabulous Cyrano has stirred the hearts of tens of thousands of drama lovers with his brilliant swordplay, rhetoric and romance. Now. with Ferrer in the title role, it is available to millions through the medium of the films and has been accorded a treatment that has resulted in accolades and honors from critics the countrv over, and an Academy Award for the star.
The huge-nosed hero of the classic tale is a poet-swordsman-philosopher, the finest swordsman and soldier in France. Hopelessly in love with his beautiful cousin. Roxane I Mala Powers), who. in turn. i> enamoured of a young, handsome soldier, Christian (William Prince I. Cyrano agrees to furnish the inarticulate soldier with the words to woo the lovely Roxane. Won by Cyrano's words as spoken and written bv Christian, Roxane marries the latter just before he is called off to war. Realizing that the girl is actually in love with his benefactor. Christian arrange. for Cyrano to disclose his own love to Roxane. but is killed in battle and Cyrano knows his secret will be kept forever. It is only 15 years later, when Cyrano lays dying after an ambush, and he recites Christian's last letter to her that Roxane realizes that ul have never loved but one man in mv life, and I have lost him — twice."