Word: gaucho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Witches' Mountain" is a three-act "gaucho" drama laid on the wild slopes of the Andes. The action is for the most part fast and vigorous, and the play is colorful and strong in dramatic effect, depicting the self-reliant spirit of the gaucho. The plot concerns the scheming and planning of three ranchmen to obtain the love of Inda, the daughter of a fellow ranchman. The story gradually increases in intensity until it has worked up to a powerful climax...
...club has also chosen the poster design to be used in advertising the fall plays. The winning design was made by Richard Karl Webel Jr. '23 of Brooklyn, New York, who designed the poster for "The Dragon" last fall. He has chosen as the subject the head of a "gaucho", or Argentine cowboy, on a black background...