"The Makropoulos Secret," a drama by Karel Capek first produced in this country in 1924 by the Dramatic Club, is soon to be staged professionally in New York, it was announced recently.
The play was translated from the original Czecho-Slovakian by Randall Cayford Burrell '24, a former member of the Dramatic Club, and it is expected that this translation will be used by Charles Hopkins, the New York producer.
In the review of the Dramatic Club production, written for the CRIMSON by Gordon Davis '10, director of dramatics at Leland Stanford University, Burrell's work on the play was highly praised.
"Mr. Burrell has brought the play to us in speech that is at once deft and forcible," he wrote. "He knows how to talk in terms of the theater--and that is not to talk too much."
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