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Members of the Dramatic Club are finding themselves in strange but ideal surroundings. For the second successive evening, they play tonight the male roles in the Wellesley Barnswallows' fall presentation, "R.U.R.," by Karel Capek...
MONEY and other stories-Karel Capek -Brentano...
...fact that human beings are fundamentally alike the world over needs constant reminders. The purely relative word "foreigner" ceases to have a definite meaning when we read the Russian stories of Chekhov, the English stories of Katherine Mansfield, the Czech stories of Karel Capek...
...Author. Karel Capek, 40, dark, slender, wiry, hesitating in manner but incisive of speech, is chiefly known in the U. S. as a playwright (The World We Live In written in collaboration with his brother Josef). He has written other plays (R. U. R., The Robber, The Makropoulos Affair), novels (Krakatit, The Absolute at Large). In Prague, his home town, he is known as a student of philosophy, principally American (William James, John Dewey), play manager and producer. Onetime Art Director of the National Art Theatre of Prague, he is now manager of the Vinohradsky Art Theatre, where he produces...
There is a heading for "Robots," the word adopted from Karel Capek's play R. U. R. for any machine functioning almost humanly...