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...present year marks the eighteenth anniversary of the Harvard Dramatic Club; last year's production--"Brown of Harvard"--was the thirty-first which the Club has offered. Looking back over the years since the foundation of this group, now the heir to all the dramatic traditions of Harvard, one notes a development extraordinary in its rapidity, and important in its effects not only on college theatricals, but also on the national drama. The work continues; and the fame of the organization increases. Within the past two seasons there have been produced on Broadway three plays which had their first presentation...
...Poet" on any stage, and Lord Dunsany, who attended the premiere, declared himself highly satisfied with the treatment which his work received from the hands of the amateurs. "Erasmus Montanus," by Holberg, "the Moliere of the North," won the better notices of the two plays. But the eighteenth-century satirist has yet to catch the popular taste...
...Macgowan was instrumental in the choice of "The Orange Comedy" for production by the Dramatic Club this fall. This play, an adaptation by Gilbert Seldes '14, from the eighteenth century Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, has never been played in America...
...early eighteenth century Italian comedy was flourishing, but was written and produced in slap-stick style, with stock characters and stereo typed jokes. Gozzi broke from this familiar fashion, and while he kept most of the stock characters, like Harlequin and Pantaloon, he wove around them a romantic story, taken from the Arabian Nights and embellished with a good deal of humor not entirely of the slapstick variety. His work is in some sense the flower of the Comedie del Arte of early Italian drama, and it-will be interesting to see on the modern stage his combination...
...since to know the whole oak one must be acquainted with the acorn, so, to understand the later literary works of the eighteenth century one must have at least an outlook over the earlier movements. Professor Howard in his course German 6, is going to speak on these earlier literary movements of the eighteenth century this morning at 11 o'clock, and any who desire may at that hour see one in the guise of a vagabond on his way to the Germanic Museum...