Word: roderigo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ethel Taylor in this role achieved no heights, but allowed her light to be extinguished gracefully; Virginia Bronson as Emilia was excellent, and if Brabantio recited his lines as if preparing for an examination, Cassio and Roderigo were fully adequate. The production was was both rich and smooth, with settings at once satisfying and suggestive, and with no long waits between them such as often dull the interest of Shakespeare. Mr. Leiber offers the most painless method of reviewing the important play...
...Author. It was in 1921 that this young Harvard man, John (Roderigo) Dos Passos, first made a splash in the literary puddle with Three Soldiers, a realistic book about the War, a book that made war look too nasty to suit certain parties, although others looked upon it and recognized the ugly face of a monster they had met. Since then Mr. Dos Passos has wandered into poetry (A Pushcart at the Curb) and into essays (Rosinante to the Road Again) as well as continuing in the well-beaten track of the novel...
...technique--a sort of radio-ragtime-phonograph-jazz. Two plays in particular illustrate this latest experimental phase. One is John Howard Lawson's "Processional" which has been the storm center of discussion in New York. The other is a still more extraordinary play by his friend, the novelist John Roderigo Dos Passos, a play that has not yet been acted or published, called "The Moon is a Gong". This is to be presented for the first time during the coming week by the Harvard Dramatic Club and may well arouse an even more heated controversy between violent detractors and equally...