Word: hagoromo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasing fairy tale is the substance of the first play, a Japanese "Noh" product, "Hagoromo". Leonard Ware '21 will take the part of, "Hakuryo", a fisherman, who finds a feathery Tennin cloak, capable of giving its owner the power to fly through the wind and clouds. The graceful nymph, "Tennin", played by Miss Madeline Brine '22 of Radcliffe, who cannot return to her native haunts in Tryiyama without her cloak, retrieves it from the fisherman only after she promised to teach him the quaint dance of the Japanese Tennis...
...original English translation of "Hagoromo" has been revised by J. W. D. Seymour '17, the coach of the plays, in order to give to it the correct "Noh" spirit which had hitherto been lacking. Special coaching has been given also by Mr. Tonuta, assistant Curator of the Museum of Fine Arts...
...casts of the Dramatic Club's twenty-second production consisting of the three one-act plays, "Wursel-Flummery", "Hagoromo", and "The Blind" have finally been selected after a competition of several weeks. In the first of these plays. F. DeN. Schroeder '24, and R. T. Pell '24 will take the chief parts in "Wurzel-Flummery", while Miss Dorothy Somerset of Radcliffe will play the chief feminine role...
...Japanese "NCH" play, "Hagoromo", Miss Madeline Brine, as Tennis, will portray the Japanese Nymph who, on finding her cloak stolen by a fisherman, learns that she must teach him to dance in order to retrieve it. The part of the fisherman will be played by Henderson Matthews...
...complete cast is as follows: "Hagoromo", A Noh: Tennis Miss Madeline Brine '22 Hakuryo Leonard Ware '21 A fisherman Honderson Matthew '23 Chorus W. Sherwood '24, C. D. Morgan '24, Peter Wooldridge '23 "The Blind: Miss Ethel Woodworth '23 Oldest Blind Woman Miss Florence Scully Unc. Miss Grace Cobb '21 Blind Girl Miss Louise Dalby Madwoman Miss Louise Daly Three Praying Women Miss Janet Fairbanks Unc. First Blind Man G. M. Kendall '24 Second Blind Man R. C. Burell Unc. Third Blind Man K. O. Mott-Smith '22 Oldest Blind Man Conrad Salinger '23 Fifth Blind Man P. R. Harmel...