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When the HDC-Idler production of "Much Ado About Nothing" makes its debut in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday evening, May 23, the directing talents of Fritz Jessner, long a leader of the German stage, will be displayed at Harvard for the first time. He succeeds Mrs. Mark de Wolfe Howe, whose resignation came as a shock to Radcliffe authorities...
Although he was the first to bring a play by John Dos Passos '16 to German audiences, Jessner's career has been associated chiefly with the classics. He directed several of Shakespeare's plays while on the continent, though never "Much Ado About Nothing," and once supervised a six-hour production of Goethe's "Faust...
Feature of his forthcoming production of "Much Ado About Nothing" will be the lack of elaborate costuming or a curtain. He plans to combine these departures with imaginative lighting in an effort to simulate the theatre of Elizabethan England...
With all casting for "Much Ado About Nothing" completed, the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Radcliffe Idler have now started regular rehearsals for the performances which they will give on May 24, 25, and 26 in Sanders Theatre...
...presented under the direction of Mrs. Mark De Wolfe Howe, Jr., with the assistance of Francis O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, will mark the first time since 1927 that the groups have collaborated on a Shakespearean work. In presenting "Much Ado About Nothing," they will be presenting a Shakespearean play which, though popular, is rarely presented in the United States...