Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast of the annual miracle play, "Dublin Cycle", which will be presented tomorrow and Thursday by the Harvard Dramatic Club, was announced yesterday by G. W. Harrington '30, director of this year's presentation...
This will be the first showing in America of this play which was translated from the Gaelic by Katherine Tynan Hinkson and it will be produced, as have the miracle plays in previous years, against the cathedral background in the Germanic Museum. The play has received the more specific title of "Our Lord's Coming and Childhood", and the translation has robbed it of none of the native beauty of rhyme and action that characterizes the original classic of Gaelic literature...
There will be two presentations of "Dublin Cycle" each evening, one at 7.30 and one at 9.15. They will be open free of charge to the audience of "Fiesta", but there will be no sale of tickets to the public. Contrary to current rumors the management of the play states that it is not a substitute play for "Fiesta", but that it was planned earlier in the year following the custom of the Dramatic Club in past years
...though Em Jo Basshe has done well with his direction, and though a Broadway cast brings a welcome efficiency to the stage of a Greenwich Village theatre, the play never touches reality...
Last week in Manhattan the Schubert Memorial gave its first concert, presented Violinist Sadah Shuchari, 20 (onetime Sadie Schwartz) and Pianist Muriel Kerr, 17, both pupils of the Juilliard Foundation. External circumstances favored them. They had 80 members of the Philharmonic-Symphony to play with, Willem Mengelberg to conduct, Prof. John Erskine (also of the Juilliard school) to introduce them. They had many and important listeners, including leading critics. They had marked talent, both of them-but for Brahms' violin concerto, for Rachmaninoff's second piano concerto it was not enough. Nor did the leading critics appear...