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SELECTED POEMS OF FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA (56 pp.)-Translated by Stephen Spender and J. L. Gili-Transatlantic Arts...
...night in August 1936, a group of Spanish fascists went to a house in the old Moorish city of Granada and carried off the poet Lorca. What happened thereafter is still a matter of conjecture. He was never seen again. By some accounts the fascists took him to the village of Fuente-vaqueros, where he had been born 37 years before, and there at daybreak, when the first light was glittering on the tiles and window panes of Andalusia, shot him. He had written about this hour in his country...
Essentially a series of vignettes or period pieces, the play is of a sort unfortunately unfamiliar to American audiences. Lorca, his admirers to the contrary, is not "the Spanish Chekov," although like much of Chekov's, "Dona Rosita" is frequently talky, mildly critical of society, and tied together by mood rather than plot action. But where Chekov is penetrating in character portrayal and development, Lorca is intentionally superficial and static. Describing his play as "a poem of 1900 Granada, divided into various gardens, with scenes of song and dance," the author uses Rosita too much as a symbol...
...spirit of Lorca's Spain was most nearly captured by the second act in which the simply appropriate sets of Brie Taylor and the delightful, if quantitatively inadequate music of Irving Fine serve to set off a series of excellent vignettes. George Clay and Edith Bronson stole the audience during brief appearances, while Donald Gair ably portrayed the horticulturist Uncle, hampered only by a beard which obscured too many of his lines. Mendy Weisgal startled the audience by doubling up with two minor roles. His appearance as the Nephew was too brief to be convincing...
...Agassiz Theatre presentation, starting at 2:30 o'clock, will be the fourth showing of the Lorca play in its initial American production. Reduced rates will be available for holders of the Jubilee Dance tickets which go on sale in the House dining halls at noon today, but seating arrangements limit the number of couples...