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"MAKROPOULOS SECRET" IS PRESENTED IN NEW YORK

"The Makropoulus Secret", the play by Karel Capek, the noted Czechoslovakian dramatist, which was first produced in the United States by the Harvard Dramatic Club in the spring of 1924, has opened this week in New York City at the Charles Hopkins Theatre for its premier on the professional stage.

The New York production is under the direction of Randolph Burrell '24, who it will be remembered made a special translation of the play for the use of the Dramatic Club when it was presented here.

Helen Mencken plays the leading feminine role in New York. Miss Mencken having recently been substituted for Emily Stevens. Frances Hyde, now with the Theatre Guild in New York, took the lead in the Dramatic Club production, while Eduardo Sanchez '26 played opposite her.

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