Word: cremona
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Violins of Cremona" by Francois Coppee and "The Witches' Mountain" by Julio Sanchez Gardel will be given their initial performance upon the American stage this evening at 8.15 o'clock at Brattle Hall, when the Dramatic Club's twenty-third semi-annual presentation will take place. Tickets for tonight's performance at a special price of $1.65 for undergraduates of the University and of Radcliffe College may be obtained at the Cooperative Society, while regular tickets at $2.20 are now on sale at the Cooperative, Leavitt and Peirce's, the Little Building, and Herrick's. The performance will be followed...
...Violins of Cremona", the setting shows an Italian violin shop littered with partly finished violins. The Dramatic Club's property department has obtained from Mr. Adolph Oettinger, a collector of mediaeval stringed instruments, a number of valuable violins, 'cellos, other Stringed instruments, and instrument cases, all antiques. The walls of the shop are very massive, and a large window at the back of the stage overlooks a street and a "piazza" in Cremona...
...plots of the two plays, although based on the same theme, are treated in very different ways. "The Violins of Cremona" concerns a contest among the violin makers of that city for the hand of Giannina, daughter of the old violin master, Taddeo Ferrari. Filippo, the hunchback who wins the prize, shows his heroism by nobly renouncing his victory to avoid forcing his love upon Giannina...
Tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock on the stage at Brattle Hall, the Dramatic Club will give the first performance of Francois Coppee's "The Violins of Cremona" and Julio Sanchez Gardel's "The Witches' Mountain" as its twenty-third semi-annual production. The play by Coppee is a one act dramatic comedy of life in northern Italy in the eighteenth century, while "The Witches' Mountain" offers contrast by depicting the rugged life of the present day Argentine "gaucho" or cowboy...
...settings for the two plays, both of which were designed by D. M. Oenslager '23, have now been completed. For the setting of "The Violins of Cremona", which shows the interior of the shop of an old Italian violin-maker with its work-benches covered with partly finished violins, Mr. Adolph Oettinger, who has one of the finest private collections of mediaeval stringed instruments in existence, loaned the club some valuable antique instrument cases, violins, 'cellos, and other stringed instruments. The club will have realistic touches in the setting of "The Witches' Mountain", which shows the exterior of several cabins...