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Tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock on the stage at Brattle Hall, the Dramatic Club will give the first performance of Francois Coppee's "The Violins of Cremona" and Julio Sanchez Gardel's "The Witches' Mountain" as its twenty-third semi-annual production. The play by Coppee is a one act dramatic comedy of life in northern Italy in the eighteenth century, while "The Witches' Mountain" offers contrast by depicting the rugged life of the present day Argentine "gaucho" or cowboy...
...settings for the two plays, both of which were designed by D. M. Oenslager '23, have now been completed. For the setting of "The Violins of Cremona", which shows the interior of the shop of an old Italian violin-maker with its work-benches covered with partly finished violins, Mr. Adolph Oettinger, who has one of the finest private collections of mediaeval stringed instruments in existence, loaned the club some valuable antique instrument cases, violins, 'cellos, and other stringed instruments. The club will have realistic touches in the setting of "The Witches' Mountain", which shows the exterior of several cabins...
...play is a dramatic comedy of life in northern Italy in the eighteenth century, dealing with a contest among the violin makers of Cremona. Taddeo Ferrari, the old violin master, has announced that the winner will receive not only the coveted trophy, but also the hand of his daughter. The play portrays the heroism of the hunchback, Fillipo, who nobly renounces his victory in order to avoid forcing his love upon Giannina...
...setting of "The Witches' Mountain" is a typical cattle ranch with cabins scattered here and there amid the rocks in the lonely desolation of the Andes. In "The Violins of Cremona", the scenery, which shows the interior of a violin shop with its workbench and tools, its partly completed violins, and its stock of well-seasoned wood for new creations, gives the picture of a miniature factory in old Italy. Both settings, which were designed by D. M. Oenslager '23 and are being constructed under his direction, have been almost completed...
...Violins of Cremona"Taddeo, C. A. Fritz 1G.Sandro, J. M. Brown '23Don Taddeo, J. J. Collier '23Giannina, Miss Kathleen Middleton '23"The Witches' Mountain"Filippo, K. O. Mott-Smith '22Leon, Burke Boyce '22Daniel, R. C. Burrell '23Juan de Dios, B. K. Little '23Tobias, Conrad Salinger '23Piluillin, Philip Wardner '24Composanto, F. S. Hill '22Inda, Miss Mary Alice Secoy '22Zolla, Miss Ethel Woodworth...