Word: kapek
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1924-1924
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Karel Kapek really going to be in the Music Building tomorrow afternoon?" "Isn't Kapek still in Czechoslovakia now?" "But he can't speak English...
These are but a few of the mystified queries which kept the telephone at the Dramatic Club offices busy all day yesterday as the result of a misstatement made in yesterday morning's CRIMSON to the effect that Karl Kapek, famous Bohemian playwright, would read his play "The Makropulos Affair" at Paine Hall in the Music Building this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
...Kapek is in Czechoslovakia; he cannot speak English, and he will not be in Paine Hall this afternoon...
...Karel Kapek was born in 1890 in Northern Bohemia, and since then he has never travelled far beyond the boundaries of Czechoslovakia, although his plays, most prominent of which are "R. U. R." and "The World We Live In," have been presented in translation in London, New York and Berlin. At present he is at Prague serving as director of the Vinohradski Theatre...
...Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock, in the Music Building, Mr. Karel Kapek, author of "The Makropulos Affair", "R. U. R", and "The World We Live In" will read his play, which has been translated from the Bohemian by J. F. Holzinger ocC., and will shortly be produced by the Dramatic Club for the first time in America...