Word: danae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soviet drama is an integral part of the war morale of the Russian people, Professor H. W. L. Dana, literary lion of greater Boston, said in a talk at Agassiz Hall at Radcliffe yesterday afternoon. The theatre has always been closely bound up in the life of the average man and the war has not changed its position, except perhaps, to intensify...
...conjunction with the new play, "Mashenka," which is being prepared by the lately merged Harvard Dramatic Club-Radcliffe Idler group, Dana described the attitude of the Russian people toward their drama to members of the two organizations and their guests...
This intensification is not only true of the drama, but of music as well, Dana stated. As Shostakovitch has said, music and bullets go together in the Red Army. Drama is similarly an almost physical necessity for the Soviet people. In the absence of the vast volume of motion pictures which we have in America, it is their chief form of visual entertainment...
...Drama of Russia at War" will be the subject of an illustrated-lecture to be given by Professor H. W. L. Dana at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe College, Cambridge. The lecture, which will be given under the joint auspices of the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Radcliffe Idier, will be open to the public...
...Dana, who has spent much time in the Soviet Union during the last 15 years, is the author of many articles on the Russian Theatre and of a "Handbook on Soviet Drama." In this lecture he will show on the screen some pictures of the latest Russian war posters and scenes from the latest Russian war plays and films...