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...Harvard Dramatic Club decided that "The Makropoulos Secret", the latest work of Karel Capek, was a play well worth doing, and, according to its esoteric lights, it might have presented this play to empty seats and still it would be worth the doing. The Club would be richer in experience, if not in purse, and a tradition, unique among College amateurs, would have been splendidly justified. But what is interesting to the man in the street--the tired student of business, the professions, or the arts, who weakly craves that the milk of human entertainment be not too curdled...
When I heard that Harvard was to produce for the first time in America this hitherto untranslated work of Capek's, I turned my back upon the glittering array of Broadway productions and took the next train for Cambridge, where I arrived just in time to see the curtains part on the first act of the dress rehearsal...
Holzinger is the authority for the statement that Karel Capek, the Czechoslovakian dramatist, used the word "Viec" in his title which, translated literally, means "thing". Realizing that "The Makropoulos Thing" was a meaningless title, Holzinger translated it "Affair". Theatrical reviews in London and New York papers have called it "Case". The Dramatic Club considered neither title was entirely adequate, and at Holzinger's suggestion "Secret" was substituted...
...Josef Capek, who has collaborated with his more famous brother, Karel, in the authorship and production of all his plays, including "The Makropulos Affair", is a cubist painter of note. His cubist stage designing for the production of Shelley's "Cenci" in Prague was an innovation which attracted worldwide comment...
...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...