HTG Soothes Leverett's Ruffled Pride; HDC Presents Spanish Comedy Monday

Leverett House, recently snubbed by freshmen in the annual application derby, will get loving attention from the Harvard Theatre Group Monday night when the strolling players invade the Hutch to open their House tour of the "Marriage of Figaro." The Bunnies will celebrate the event with a "highest table" dinner.

The new House opening will be in the Union at 7 p.m. tomorrow night.

Final announcement of the cast was made yesterday. John G. Kerr '52 will play Figaro, the valet in love with a lady-in-waiting (Ailene Presman '51).

Housemaster

The master of the House, also the Count of Almaviva, played by Jerome H. Kohn '52, tries to cut in on his servant by making use of the venerable "droit do seigneur." But the Countess (Roshane Danjhibhey) tricks her mate into fidelity with the help of a page named Cheribino (John O. Gates '51).

Other principals are David Bowen '51 (also managing director), Mary Elizabeth Faiglo '53, Michael Mabry '53, Carla Friedman '53, Samuel O. King '51, Donald O. Stewart, Jr. '53, Theodore W. Thieme '52, and Ivan Nabokoff '53.

The company also includes a host of musicians, dancers, singers, and jugglers.

The Harvard Dramatic Club will stage "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife," a Spanish comedy, Monday afternoon in the Fogg Lecture Room.

The production will be in the HDC Reading Theatre series, but, except for the free admission, it's a full HDC production with sets, costumes, and actors who have memorized their lines.

Violent Comedy

Subtitled "a violent comedy in two acts," the play was written in 1930 by Frederico Lorea. It was given its U.S. premiere in 1941 by the HDC.

Sherman H. Hawkins '51 will direct the play. Joanna Brown '52 plays the shrewish shoemaker's wife, and Michael Mabry '53 plays the shoemaker who is driven out of his home.

Other members of the cast include Roger L. Butler '51, Robert C. Seaver '50, Peter S. Capernares '52, Richard T. Heffren '52, and William J. Burns '53.

The sets were designed by James H. Kay III '53 and constructed by Alan C. Purves '53. John S. Gerig '52 is in charge of lights and Robert L. Consolint '53 is in charge of sets.

Lorea, the author, was martyred by fascists in the Spanish Revelution. He toured the Spanish country-side with a troupe which gave plays for peasants.