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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumors that the costume of Eve in the HDC's next week production of "Adam the Creator" would consist of three strategically located fig leaves were emphatically spiked last night by Miss Kaye Horan, Radcliffe '48, portrayer of the Biblical temptress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fig Leaf Frustration Ended As 'Cliffe Eve Wears Tunic | 11/8/1946 | See Source »

With the Harvard Dramatic Club's "Adam the Creator" going into final rehearsals Henry W. L. Dana, an authority on Slavic drama, will lecture to the club and others interested in the theater on "The Work of the Capeks and their Influence on Czechoslovakian Drama" this afternoon in Fogg Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henry Dana to Speak On Czechoslovak Play | 11/7/1946 | See Source »

Authors of "Adam the Creator" as well as the famous play of the twenties "R.U.R." in which the word "robot" was originated, the Capeks are among the outstanding Continental dramatists and are noted for their ingenious stage sets and novel plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Henry Dana to Speak On Czechoslovak Play | 11/7/1946 | See Source »

...calamity is world wide. Moscow cuts itself off from the world; there are riots in Paris and a wave of vice in Rome; London pleads with its populace to remain calm while a Royal Commission continues its investigation. And while the world sits on the brink of disaster, Mr. Adam, of Tarrytown, N. Y., gives birth to a normal baby girl and Mr. Adam goes to Washington as the greatest hero since Lindbergh. Such is the new moved by journalist Frank, who deftly beams a spotlight on the tightrope that the ordinary Joe and wife must tread during an atomic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/6/1946 | See Source »

...Washington, Adam is made the darling of the N.R.P. (National Re-fertilization Project), while the N.R.C. (the scientists) demands that Adam be submitted to further tests to find out why the loss of Mississippi turned out so badly. While Colonel Phelps-Smythe, who is bucking for a star, takes over security arrangements, the bureaucrats take up the bit and proceed to run organizationally amuck, turning the hope of humanity into the greatest show since N.R.A. went out. Adam is torn between policy meetings screen tests (Hollywood foresees a race of gawky, Adam-like red-heads) and experimental sessions with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/6/1946 | See Source »

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