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Miss Francesca Braggiotti has been secured to interpret the principal dancing role in the spring show "Hassan", it was announced yesterday by the Harvard Dramatic Club. She will present a dance which she has arranged especially for the play. It is a Hindu and Nautch dance given in an oriental setting, as an interpretation of the play...
...Miss Braggiotti is well known in Boston where she is the director of the New England branch of the Braggiotti-Denishawn School of Dancing. She came into prominence during the World War, at which time she entertained in the special performances given at military camps...
...Miss Braggiotti fails to excite the Harvard supers...
...supporters down to the Harvard super pilgrims. His appearance was all that could be asked for, his eye wild enough; and his voice smacked somewhat of the wilderness, but the total effect was unconvincing. The part requires too long a performance of sustained excellence. Miss Francesca Braggiotti, to come to the more important matter of Salome and the Seven Veils, was not quite all we dropped for from that mad, bad daughter of Herodias. To give credit where credit is due, her dancing far surpassed her acting, although in a fury--which seems to have been Salome's favorite mood...
Before ringing off, Mr. Jewett denied the tumor that Miss Braggiotti had became engaged to a former super of hers during the summer. "Maybe its one of the others," he said, 'but not my 'Salome...