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...Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the Music Building, Mr. Karel Kapek, author of "The Makropulos Affair", "R. U. R", and "The World We Live In" will read his play, which has been translated from the Bohemian by J. F. Holzinger ocC., and will shortly be produced by the Dramatic Club for the first time in America...
...chosen play, "The Makropulos Affair," a Crecko Slovakian comedy by Karl Capek, has been translated from the Bohemian by J. F. Holzinger and revised by R. C. Burrell '24. It will be produced in America for the first time by the Dramatic Club...
Once upon a time folk-dances were common. Flaxen-haired madchens whirled before the Bohemian alehouse; Russian peasants brought in the harvest with a grand clicking of heels; and the toreador's wife turned exultant somersaults in the market place, while her husband slew the bull. Each of these was a primitive expression of emotion. The skips and contortions the ballet stage are all that now remains of these old-time dances. The originals have been so greatly modified and "aestheticized" by the professors of terpsichorean that their originators would scarcely recognize them. The folk-dance was natural; the imitation...
...work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids; Mestrovic, the Serbian; Archipenko...
Anyone who enjoys pure literary foolery, strongly tinged with good-natured satire and keen observation entirely disassociated from reality must enjoy this little book. The Bohemian, neo-artistic circles are ridiculed delightfully; and the love affairs of Mr. Withersq and his Lelia reach the pinnacle of absurdity. One can easily imagine that the author had a marvelous time writing "Splashing Into Society"; and if one has a taste for the unusual and unorthodox, one cannot help being greatly amused...