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The chosen play, "The Makropulos Affair," a Crecko Slovakian comedy by Karl Capek, has been translated from the Bohemian by J. F. Holzinger and revised by R. C. Burrell '24. It will be produced in America for the first time by the Dramatic Club.
"The Makropulos Affair," by Karel Capek, author of "R. U. R." and "The World We Live In," has been selected for the Dramatic Club Play and will be given some time during the first week of May. It was translated from the Czecho-Slovakian by J. F. Holxinger ocC assisted...
The plays this year show the improvement of experience. Not only is the movement of the scenes somewhat more unified, thanks to Mr. Burrell's efforts at adaptation in the wide range allowed him in the Towneley Cycle, but the roles themselves are in some cases taken by the same...
The presentation is the Chaundler play of the Towneley cycle, dealing with the Annunciation to Mary, The Adoration of the Infant by the Shepherds and Kings, and with the flight into Egypt. The translation by R. C. Burrell '24 and Donald Stralem '25 is in semi-poetical form.
The actors are given a harder task. It is not easy to be a clever, animated picture, even with a gilt frame for adornment and it is, on the whole, rather surprising that they seem as human as they do. Beyond a doubt the reason for this lies in the...