Author to Attend HDC Spring Play

W. H. Auden, young English author of the forthcoming Dramatic Club production. "The Ascent of F6," has just accepted an invitation to come here this weekend to see his play enacted and to speak on the radio.

In conjunction with the club, Theodore Spencer, visiting lecturer on English, asked both Auden and co-author Christopher Isherwood to come to the play, but Isherwood refused because of an engagement in Hollywood.

Auden will speak over Station WBZ Saturday afternoon about the play and will attend its final performance that evening in Sanders Theatre. He wrote "Dog Beneath the Skin," which the Dramatic Club presented several years ago.

A visiting lecturer on poetry here this year, he has just completed an opera on Paul Bunyan with Benjamin Britton, well-known composer.