Word: danae
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drama Under the Soviets" will be the subject of a lecture to be given on Thursday evening by H. W. L. Dana '03, under the auspices of the Liberal Club. Dr. Dana will discuss the way in which contemporary Russian drama deals with revolutionary problems, and slides of many of the most dramatic scenes from recent Soviet plays will be shown during the lecture. Members of the Dramatic Club are especially invited to attend...
...Dana is a professor at the New School for Social Research in New York, and has recently spent over two years in Russia studying various aspects of the Russian stage. While collecting material for a book on the Soviet drama, he accompanied George Bernard Shaw on his recent tour of Russia...
...Dana "03 in an article on Walter Hasenclever says, "Walter Hasenclaver is the 'enfant terrible, or perhaps we should say rather the 'bad boy,' of German dramatists. Since the death of the terrible Wedekind, there has been no playwright so disturbing to German complacency as this small, keen, dynamic Hasenclaver, with his terrifying piercing eyes. . . .The sensationalism of Hasenclaver is hardly important enough to demand very serious consideration abroad, yet the originally and the daring of his plots which have stirred so much discussion in Europe deserve more attention than they have received in America...
...life. The cranks besieged him. but he was impregnable. He continued to lecture far & wide. Far & wide he circulated, like a cultured bacillus, trying to infect the U. S. with some symptoms of a native civilization. He organized literary clubs, the Transcendental Club; with Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes. Agassiz, Dana he joined the Boston Saturday Club. He tried to introduce Whitman to his Boston friends but Lowell demurred?"a New York tough, a frequenter of low places." Finally his energies ran low; his memory began to fail, his raven hair fell out. A trip to Egypt brought him a new crop...
...Cambridge performances are made possible through a group of sponsors which includes: Mrs. Alvan T. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Bancroft, Mrs. Robert M. Saltonstall, Mrs. William Dana Orcutt, Mrs. Charles T. Collins, Mrs. Steven W. Sleeper, Mrs. George Currier, Mrs. Charles Peabody, Mrs. Otis W. Robinson, Mrs. Horaco Morison Mrs. C. Nichols Greene, Mrs. Carl P. Donnott, Mrs. Bliss Perry, Mrs. Edward Ingraham, and Mrs. Henry I. Harrison...