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...Dramatic Club made an excellent choice for its play this year. "The Dragon" is a delightful medley of old Celtic folk tales, Gilbert and Sullivan successes and the finished dramatic technique and the kindly human sympathy conspicuous in Lady Gregory's works. In its reminiscence of old tales, it suggests at once parts of that great mediaeval romance, "Tristram and Iseult...
...Dragon," a "Wonder Play in Three Acts," by Lady Gregory, which was produced first at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin on April 21st, 1919, was performed last evening for the first time in America at the Hasty Pudding Theatre by the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...delicious humor. The logic of the Queen, the Princess's self-sufficient, practical step-mother, is not more unanswerable than Gilbertian when she suggests the way for the girl to escape the doom foretold by the stars--that she is to be ate and devoured by a scaly Green Dragon from the North. Marriage, argues the Queen, is the way of escape. Dragons from time immemorial have eaten King's daughters but not Kings' wives. "In all the inventions made by poets did any of you ever hear of a Dragon swallowing the wedding-ring?" Hence the proclamation...
Only a company of professional stars could give a performance of "The Dragon" entirely worthy of the play. This naturally was not to be expected last evening, though the actors of the Dramatic Club have been admirably trained by Mr. J. W. D. Seymour. The chief weakness of the company was in enunciation. Mr. Brown, a very dragonfly dragon, spoke with excellent distinctness, and so for the most part did Mr. Faweett as the King. Mr. Leach as the King of Sorcha, and Mr. Wardner as Taig, the false claimant. But the enunciation of the others was at times...
...second performance of "The Dragon," by Lady Gregory, the Dramatic Club's 21st production, will take place in the Copley Theatre, Boston, at 2.15 o'clock this afternoon. Tickets at $2.20 and $1.65 are still on sale at the Copley Theatre, Herrick's, the Cooperative and Leavitt & Peirce...