Word: quinteros
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...month from now until May. The Players feel that there is a definite public which will support the production of really worth while drama in Cambridge, and are offering this series of productions to prove their convictions. The other plays in the series will include Chekoff's "Uncle Vanya," Quintero's "Fortunato," and Pirandello's "Naked." "Uncle Vanya," which will be the next production, will be played on February...
playwright-brothers Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero seem to produce, their collaborations in the drowsy noons of their native Spain, recording the gentle disturbances which occur in villages where everyone is either anticipating or taking a siesta. Earlier this season, Otis Skinner's genial grunts sounded almost melodramatic in the Quinteros' languorous A Hundred Years Old (TIME, Oct. 14). And now Eva Le Gallienne, simply by swirling on stage in a dark wig and a bright gown with innumerable ruffles, creates what amounts to consternation in a similarly torpid drama. She is the village belle, and all that...
...Quintero quiet does not lead to boredom. The brothers realize that when there are no big things to be dramatic, small things become so. Theirs is a glancing, fragile but wholly affecting art. The Civic Repertory company interprets it admirably...
Majestic--Otis Skinner in "One Hundred Years Old." Tranquil and pleasant study of a centenarian by the Quintero brothers...
...alert to quench the enthusiastic fervor of youth. If an occasional sympathetic portrayal is presented, as in "Old English" the hero is made out to be scapegrace of one sort or another whom one loves partly in spite of and partly because of his faults. Serafin and Joaquin Quintero, the leading present-day Spanish play-wrights, have made a real addition to the literature of the stage in "A Hundred Years Old" (El Centenario)' for this play, now being shown at the Majestic, is unique in that old age is glorified in its own right...