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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...
...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...
...companion, Charlton Reynders '20, also from New York, has survived, but is suffering considerably from over-exposure. The pair started off Thursday for the MacVeagh summer home in Dublin, N. H., and on Saturday set out for a short trip on snowshoes, discarding hats, gloves and coats, on account of the mildness of the weather. They became lost in a snow storm Saturday night, and were found early yesterday morning by the caretaker of the MacVeagh estate half a mile from the top of Mt. Monadnock...
MacVeagh had died while on the mountain at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. His body was brought back to Dublin...
...clock, the topic being "The Organization and International Relationships of Universities and Colleges." Ten or fifteen minute addresses were given by Dr. Arthur Everett Shipley, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge; President Arthur Twining Hadley, of Yale; Professor John Joly, of Trinity College, University of Dublin; and Sir Henry Miers, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester. This was followed by a general discussion of the subject, in which more than a dozen delegates took part. The session adjourned at one o'clock to allow the delegates time for luncheon as the guests of President and Mrs. Lowell...