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...HDC-Radcliffe Idler production that opens in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening retains the things that are time-less about Shakespeare, but prunes the obsolete puns and the long speeches, and plays "Much Ado," which is after all supposed to be a lot of fun, strictly for laughs...
...When the HDC-Idler production of "Much Ado About Nothing" makes its debut in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday evening, May 23, the directing talents of Fritz Jessner, long a leader of the German stage, will be displayed at Harvard for the first time. He succeeds Mrs. Mark de Wolfe Howe, whose resignation came as a shock to Radcliffe authorities...
...foregoing raises the question of whether James' plays should be categorized as closet-drama and relegated to the library. The HDC-Idler effort to stage "Owen Wingrave" may indicate an answer to that question...
...James's unpublished and heretofore unproduced work is the fourth major joint production of HDC and Idler. Predecessors of "Owen Wingrave" in this respect are "Mashenka," which was produced on Broadway after its staging here and of which the Dramatic Club received many requests for performances in other cities; the dynamic "Dona Rosita"; and last year's hit, "Playboy of the Western World...
...players in this thespian venture are candidates for the society, thus following the HDC tradition of using only untried actors for each season's initial performance...