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...been officially revealed, but art historians now believe that the redhead who appears as a flaming, enigmatic image throughout Munch's work was a young Norwegian girl named Dagney Juell. She was Munch's model in Berlin before she moved over to live with Swedish Dramatist August Strindberg, finally married the best friend of both men, Polish Poet Stanislas Przybyszewski. One of Munch's most powerful paintings of the redhead was Jeatiousy, in which he depicted her as a salacious wanton, with an enigmatic, glowering father at left. Between the two, man-depicted as Poet Przybyszewski...
...past year has seen a total of 45 student productions on the stages of Sanders Theatre, Agassiz, and various House dining halls. The works ran the theatrical gamut from tragedy to comedy, and from such standard theatre fare as Shaw and Shakespeare to the rarely performed works of Strindberg and Genet...
...best one-act play submitted will be produced next November in conjunction with the Society's production of "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg. Entries may be submitted until early next fall, and the winner will be selected by a group of drama educators...
...groups in attendance came with plays calculated to confuse or confound. Vassar contributed an excellent production of Strindberg's Miss Julie, which constituted the most consistently satisfactory theatrical experience of the whole weekend. The Yale Dramatic Association, which acted as the sponsor for the festival, opened the proceedings with some scenes from their recent production of Arthur Miller's View from the Bridge. Considering the fact that Yale was working on its home ground, the technical side of the presentation left something to be desired. It was well acted, but suffered from stiff direction and poor lighting...
Brattle anniversaries have been marked by "Miss Julie," the film version of Strindberg's play made in Sweden starring Anita Bjork; "Desires," a serious but deceptively titled German film about morphine addiction; and "Citizen Kane," starring Orson Welles, landmark in anybody's history of motion pictures. Two of the films, "Miss Julie" and "Desires," were barred from Sunday exhibition by the censors because of their controversial and/or questionable material, and it was on the basis of the ban of "Miss Julie" that the Brattle and its lawyers fought down the Massachusetts Sunday censorship law which was declared unconstitutional on July...