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March 7-Concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra; in Philadelphia. Guest conductor : Tullio Serafin, of the Metropolitan Opera...
March 7?Concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra; in Philadelphia. Guest conductor: Tullio Serafin, of the Metropolitan Opera...
March 7-Concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra; in Philadelphia. Guest conductor: Tullio Serafin, of the Metropolitan Opera...
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...
...serenity of the Quinteros is partially explained by the fact that they are Andalusians from idle, baking, southern Spain. Born in Utrera (Serafin is 58, Joaquin Alvarez 56), they have never married, have never published anything which does not bear both their names. Before his death, an older brother Pedro was as close to them as they are still to each other, but he criticized rather than collaborated. Their first play (Esgrima y amor) was given in Seville when Serafin was 16. The tradition of fecundity commonly attached to Spanish dramatists, largely due to the labors of the prodigious Lope...