Pierre DUX. 8 L.A.S., 1960-1974, to Henry de Montherlant; 12pages in-8 at his address 57, rue de Clichy IXe, and 5pages oblong in-12 headed Comédie Française Administrateur général. Interesting correspondence from the actor, director and administrator to Montherlant. September 23, 1960. An insurance contract prevents him from directing Le Cardinal d'Espagne; he was delighted to be reunited with Montherlant "in this stage work, which depending on the author and the work, can be fascinating, and of which two of your plays are my best memories. What also annoys me, of course, is the boredom Escande and the Comédie-Française are going to find themselves in, two months before the scheduled date of the dress rehearsal"... - June 11, 1969, concerning the cuts suggested by Dux and accepted by Montherlant for the revival of Malatesta at the Comédie Française (January 28, 1970): "In my opinion, the play has gained enormously"... - August 3, 1969. He regrets not having been able to see the performances of Malatesta in Italy, as he was held up shooting a film. He is on vacation in Valberg, where the reading of Les Garçons has begun... February 19, 1970. He has seen Malatesta several times, three times from the stage, twice from the audience: "Everything 'holds' perfectly"; he has even noted progress, particularly with Aminel (the Cardinal); the only problem is sometimes a flutter in the extras, replaced "with the means at hand"... - May 27, he has still not been able to find "two quiet hours - and not at night" to read Montherlant's play properly. He won't start work at Le Français until August 1... - July 26, about a proposed revival of Montherlant's Don Juan by "a non-traditionalist director", Leveugle... - December 28. Reaction to reading Notes sur le théâtre de Montherlant, in which he quotes a phrase by Dux, who clarifies his thoughts here: "what I mean is that the content, whatever its value, has no chance of reaching the public if the composition and form are bad, because the play will not be a success". He thus targets "the innumerable contemporary authors who want to write on a theme about which they are full of ideas, but whose plays sink into boredom because they are badly done"... - March 21, 1974, thanking you for sending me a beautiful book "which will now sit in my library alongside the other volumes by the great Montherlant"...