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...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...
...Thousand Years Ago," by Percy MacKaye '97, author of the "Scarecrow" and "Tomorrow," will be given its first-night production at the Shubert Theatre this evening. The play is a poetic romance the basic legend of which has been treated before by Gozzi, the Italian dramatist, and by Schiller. Last year, as produced by Reinhardt with his new scenery, the Gozzi-Schiller version, which is called "Turandot," had a great vogue in Germany. But when brought to this country and tried out on the American public it failed. It was then suggested that Mr. MacKaye was the right person...
...received an enthusiastic reception. Mr. Mackaye is now rehearsing a new play which the Shuberts are to produce shortly in New York. This play, "Turandot, Princess of Pekin," is an original fantastic comedy in verse on a theme from the same Arabian Night's tale as the older Gozzi-Schiller "Turandot." It is not a revision or rewriting of that play, as has been stated, but an entirely new piece...