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Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu wrote a slapstick one-act opera in 1937 called Comedy on the Bridge. It was a satire on war, and everybody had a good time when they heard the Prague radio premiere that year. Says Expatriate Martinu, sad-eyed, 60, and full of memories of Munich and its aftermath: "Six months later, I could not have written...
Verse plays written and acted by students proved Monday night to have a surprising drawing power; a large and sympathetic audience attended the first evening of one-act plays by the Poets' Theatre. Although none of the works presented was completely satisfying, they showed considerable promise, and the reception should encourage future productions...
Idler is now working on the casting of a one-act play to be presented Tuesday, March...
...one-act plays have been planned for the first afternoon as the traditional entertainment for the freshmen's senior sisters. The Crimson Stumpers will play that night at a jazz concert in Agassiz Theatre, and will provide music for the informal dance following the performance...
...Lyon Phelps '45, spokesman for the group, announced last night that the first program would be made up of four one-act plays "Everyman," a masque by John Ashbery '50; "Interlude," by Richard Eberhart; "Try! Try!" by Francis O'Hara '50; and "A Play About Three Words," by Phelps. All of these poets have had poems published...