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...over the U. S., Negro players, musicians, authors, also many an eminent white. All week Dillard held an arts festival. Negro children sang spirituals and Tschaikowsky; the Dillard Chorus sang Haydn's Creation; high-school actors gave plays; Dillard's Players' Guild put on Karel Capek's R. U. R.; Dillard's gallery exhibited prize Negro paintings and photographs. Dillard's president, small, earnest Dr. William Stuart Nelson, beamed with pride...
Skeleton on Horseback (Czech). This last picture made by the Czechs from one of the last plays of their late great playwright, Karel Capek (R. U. R.), is reported to have been smuggled out of Czechoslovakia shortly after the German invasion. It is a lurid appeal for pacifism. Dr. Galen (Hugo Haas) has discovered a secret cure for a leprous epidemic which is slowly killing off the human race. Dr. Galen lives in an unnamed dictatorship. When its dictator (Zdanek Stepanek) and his munitions manufacturer (Vaclav Vydra) contract the disease, Dr. Galen refuses to cure them unless they stop making...
Gentlemen, the New England Repertory has really been kicking the gong around of late. With a flying swan dive off the deep end, they have produced "Adam the Creator" by the Czech "enfant terrible" of the theatre, Karel Capek. The general keynote of the script is that God made an awful mess of things during those first seven days--but then, again, is there anyone in the audience who thinks he could do a better...
...scare anyone out of the idea, Capek takes a poor, benighted nihilist, lets him blow up the world, and start all over again. Adam, the nihilist, proceeds to get himself mixed up with a clinging vine, mass production, Nazism, Communism, religion, and democracy, and in the end passes the world back to God, apparently mighty glad to get out of the job of Creator. Yet while Mr. Capek takes agile swats at every political theory in sight, his only constructive theory seems to be to leave everything in the hands of God. Perhaps that's all the Czechs...
Informed of the death on Christmas Day of 48-year-old CzechoSlovakian Dramatist Karel Capek (TIME, Jan. 2), 82-year-old Dramatist George Bernard Shaw exclaimed: "Why did he die? Why not me? ... It seems almost absurd that an old man like me should continue living while youngsters like Karel have to pass...