NEW DRAMATIC CLUB PLAY SAID TO SHOW ANDREYEV IN MORE GENIAL SPIRIT

In choosing its opening production for this year the Dramatic Club has turned to the drama of Russia, and has chosen a play. "The Life of Man", which, though widely known, has not yet been publicly produced in America. The author, Leonid Andreyev, has come into fame on the American stage as a result of his "He Who Gets Slapped" which had such a spectacular run in New York last season.

The play itself is a product of the newer methods of the continental theatre, and is considered a masterpiece of expressionistic writing, giving a wide scope of interpretation to all the artists of the theatre. For several seasons it has been included in the reportoire of the Moscow Arts Theatre. In it Andreyev may be seen in a genial mood in contrast to the bitter cynicism of "He Who Gets Slapped". The play is lacking in the horror of the "Red Laugh" and is free from the idealism of the "Life of Vasile Fivey Ski", but is touched with Andreyev's typical fatalism.

Andreyev is known as a mystic with a keen analytical power whose productions are both original and brilliant, and is said to paint contemporary Russian life with unerring strokes.

Public performances of "The Life of Man" will be given at Brattle Hall, Cambridge, on December 12, 14 and 18. On December 15 there will be a matinee performance at the Hollis Street Theatre, Boston.