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47 WORKSHOP TO PRESENT ICELANDIC DRAMA FRIDAY

"EYVIND OF THE HILLS" WILL BE GIVEN FOR FIRST TIME IN AMERICA.

"Eyvind of the Hills," an Icelandic drama in fur acts by Johann Sigurjonsson will be produced by the 47 Workshop as its second set of performances in the Agassiz House Theatre on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 o'clock. The play was originally written in Danish and its translation by Henninge K. Schanche was published in a single volume with another of his more recent plays, "Hraun Farm," this fall by the American-Scandinavian Foundation of America.

The Workshop will be the first to produce on this continent this play, which was considered such a masterpiece when seen in Denmark, Norway, Germany and England. The American-Scandinavian Foundation was very anxious to have it staged in this country, and for this and several other reasons, Professor Baker has chosen it for this production Sigur-

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