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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Permit me to call attention in your columns to an interesting dramatic performance which is to be given by Mr. Faversham at the Hollis Street Theatre this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. Impelled by a desire to help on the good work of the Students' House, a haven for the artistically inclined, Mr. Faversham is going to present, under the title of "All the World and his Wife," an English version of the powerful play, "El Gwan Galeoto," the masterpiece of the Spanish dramatist Jose Echegaray.

To Echegaray, who is also noted as a mathematician and statesman, high rank is universally accorded among the play-wrights of our own day. Not long ago he was awarded the Nobel prize, as a tribute to his artistic powers. It is to the problem play that Echegaray has given his greatest attention, and the fullest measure of his success in this direction may be seen in the piece which Mr. Faversham now offers in a form somewhat different from that in which Mr. Blair presented it in Boston, 1899, but sufficiently faithful to the original. From first to last the interest of the spectator is kept tense; and, whether one agrees or not with the premises and the conclusion of the mathematician-dramatist Echegaray, he is likely to feel, when the curtain finally drops, that he has witnessed the performance of a work of real artistic value. J. D. M. FORD.