Word: quinto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HANK QUINTO...
...QUINTO...
...took no royalties. Directors and actors donated their services. Within a year La Carátula staged single performances of a score of modern plays banned from the public theater (e.g., Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie). Madrid's top critics attended and wrote much-discussed reviews. Author Da Quinto exulted: "A small window has opened out on the world...
...Censor Sees. Last week Da Quinto & Co. put on their most daring show-The House of Bernardo, Alba, by Spain's late great Federico Garcia Lorca. The Andalusian poet, a symbol of intellectual opposition to Francisco Franco's regime, had written the play a few months before his murder in 1936 by Falangist gunmen...
Next morning Da Quinto and Gordon pleaded with the censor. "This means." they said, "a final blow to the theater in Spain." Shamefaced Censor Garcia Espina shrugged. "I'm just as sorry as you are," he said. "But orders are orders. You think I'm the boss, but I'm just an egg between two stones." Mumbled Da Quinto: "The Bernardas of Spain have the last word. The window is closed once more...