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After two weeks of trials and rehearsals, the cast for the Harvard Dramatic Club's twenty-first production, "The Dragon," has been selected. "The Dragon." Lady Gregory's new humorous fantasy, has never been presented in America, having received its first production at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, with Lady Gregory's own company of Irish players. The following undergraduates of the University and of Radcliffe College will create the characters of the cast in this country: The King, W. V. M. Fawcett '21 The Queen, Miss K. McLarnie The Princesse Nuala, Miss D. Googins The Nurse, Miss M. Ellis...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has selected "The Dragon," a wonder play by Lady Gregory, for presentation this winter. It will be read tomorrow afternoon at 4.30 in the Phillips Brooks House at a meeting which candidates for all departments of the Dramatic Club are expected to attend...
...Dragon" has never been presented in America but was produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in Easter Week, 1919, with overwhelming success by Lady Gregory's own company of Irish players. At the time the press described it "as a fantastic, genuinely funny play in three acts, a wonder play of spell-bound princesses, of kings who masquerade as cooks, of tailors who strut 'as kings, of bearded astrologers and flame-spouting dragons." Critics have pronounced it as her best' work since "The Wardhouse Ward," and said that it is pantomime as pantomime would be written were its librettists artists...
...deepest veneration, and quadruple precious because of the mantel of age which surrounds them. Who is not stirred when looking on the gymnasium, busier in the year of the great war? Or when gazing at Boylston, which some affirm was standing when the late L. Ericsen pushed his dragon-prowed ships against the banks of the poetic Charles...
This evening the wrestling team ventures into new fields. It visits the home of Grand Opera en masse, not to witness the amorous advances of Carmen and Don Jose, nor the combat of Siegfried and the Dragon, but to admire the calisthenic achievements of Professor Anderson in the manly art of catch-as-catch-can. This expedition augurs well for the whole future of wrestling. It marks a new rapprochement between the professional and the academic sides of the sport. Hereafter these descendents of the gladiators need no longer confine themselves to contests of their own confreres. The bars...