"MOSTELLARIA" WILL BE CLASSICAL CLUB PLAY

On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, April 15, 16, and 17, the Classical Club will present the Tercentenary Latin Play, the "Mostellaria" of Plautus at the Sanders Memorial Theatre. It will recall the early years of the College, when Latin textbooks, lectures, and conversations were a normal part of student life.

Rehearsals are in progresss under the direction of Alan McN. G. Little, instructor in Greek and Latin, assisted by Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking, and Charles T. Murphy '31, instructor in Greek and Latin.

Laird McK. Ogle '37 will play the slave hero Tranio, and Daniel H. H. Ingalls '36 will take the part of Theopropides, the old father. Ralph Lazzaro '36 is to appear as both Scapha and Phaniscus in the play.

Special music for the production is being written by Elliott C. Carter, Jr. '30 using Italian folk songs as his theme. Masks and scenery are based on wall paintings from the period when mural art in Rome was most under the influence of the theatre. The stage setting itself is modelled after one familiar to visitors to the Pompeian room of New York City's Metropolitan Museum. The whole production will reproduce as closely as possible the actual atmosphere of the first century B.C.