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...showing a touch of sentiment at times, if you're the kind who sends his wife flowers on her birthday, or if you like Walt Disney, it will pay to walk across the campus to Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe and see the Harvard Dramatic Club-Radcliffe Idler production of "Dona Rosita," tonight and tomorrow at 8:30 o'clock...
...Dona Rosita," the spring offering of HDC and Idler, is less than completely successful as a play, it remains good entertainment. Despite handicaps inherent in the translation of romantic lyrics a foreign setting, and an inadequate theatre, the uniformly good and frequently inspired acting of a fine cast produces an evening which is never dull and is occasionally delightful...
Essentially a series of vignettes or period pieces, the play is of a sort unfortunately unfamiliar to American audiences. Lorca, his admirers to the contrary, is not "the Spanish Chekov," although like much of Chekov's, "Dona Rosita" is frequently talky, mildly critical of society, and tied together by mood rather than plot action. But where Chekov is penetrating in character portrayal and development, Lorca is intentionally superficial and static. Describing his play as "a poem of 1900 Granada, divided into various gardens, with scenes of song and dance," the author uses Rosita too much as a symbol...
...American premier of "Dona Rosita" will be presented tonight by the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Radcliffe Idler. Their spring production will be given with special music written by Irving G. Fine and special ballet sequences by Harry Churchill Swill...
...interested created by their last production, "Mashenka," which will soon be dopruced on Broadway, agents representing the Shuberts, Twentieth Century Fox, and Universal will be present. Anne Putnam '46, who was offered a contrast by Twentieth Century Fox because of her acting in "Mashenka," will also play in "Dona Rosita...