Word: quinteros
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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playwright-brothers Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero seem to produce, their collaborations in the drowsy noons of their native Spain, recording the gentle disturbances which occur in villages where everyone is either anticipating or taking a siesta. Earlier this season, Otis Skinner's genial grunts sounded almost melodramatic in the Quinteros' languorous A Hundred Years Old (TIME, Oct. 14). And now Eva Le Gallienne, simply by swirling on stage in a dark wig and a bright gown with innumerable ruffles, creates what amounts to consternation in a similarly torpid drama. She is the village belle, and all that...
...Quintero quiet does not lead to boredom. The brothers realize that when there are no big things to be dramatic, small things become so. Theirs is a glancing, fragile but wholly affecting art. The Civic Repertory company interprets it admirably...