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...Massey, who is considered one of the foremost coaches in an around Boston, has been the coach of the last two productions of the Dramatic Club. Last spring he produced Karel Capek's "Makropoulos Secret" and in December, A. Anhtony Wyse's "Pedro the King...
...Massey, who is considered one of the foremost coaches in and around Boston, has been the coach of the last two productions of the Dramatic Club. Last Spring, he produced Karel Capek's "Makropoulos Secret" and in December, A. Anthony Wyse's "Pedro the King...
...impossible. The mirage of Ponce de Leon may be real after all, and a mere stop in a larger scheme. Daedalus and learus were myths until the Wright brothers clothed them in fact. And Julos Verne in his day was thought a spinner of idle fancies. Who knows but Karel Capek may prove a seer, and President Lowell realize his dream of "synthetic Freshmen...
...Harvard Dramatic Club decided that "The Makropoulos Secret", the latest work of Karel Capek, was a play well worth doing, and, according to its esoteric lights, it might have presented this play to empty seats and still it would be worth the doing. The Club would be richer in experience, if not in purse, and a tradition, unique among College amateurs, would have been splendidly justified. But what is interesting to the man in the street--the tired student of business, the professions, or the arts, who weakly craves that the milk of human entertainment be not too curdled...
Holzinger is the authority for the statement that Karel Capek, the Czechoslovakian dramatist, used the word "Viec" in his title which, translated literally, means "thing". Realizing that "The Makropoulos Thing" was a meaningless title, Holzinger translated it "Affair". Theatrical reviews in London and New York papers have called it "Case". The Dramatic Club considered neither title was entirely adequate, and at Holzinger's suggestion "Secret" was substituted...