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...night about a year ago, during an intellectual gabfest in Madrid's Café Gijon, two young authors, José Maria Da Quinto and José Gordon, thought up a way to skirt the government censorship of the stage. Why not form a private club to put on shows for members only? Franco's rules did not forbid it. So the club La Carátula (The Mask) was born...
...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...
...Moore; Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, a deft, bubbling radio opera commissioned by NBC, first given in 1939; Four Saints in Three Acts, with Virgil Thomson's gravely melodious music to Gertrude Stein's nonsensical words; Tennessee's Partner, a Quinto Maganini opera on a Bret Harte short story, which has lain unperformed, unorchestrated since 1934; Aaron Copland's play-opera for schools. The Second Hurricane; Deems Taylor's Metropolitan success of 1927, The King's Henchman...