LOCAL PLAYGOER

(The Harvard Dramatic Club and the Radcliffe Idler, for their spring production, are giving this Spanish fantasy Friday and Saturday nights at 8:30.)

If you're not ashamed of showing a touch of sentiment at times, if you're the kind who sends his wife flowers on her birthday, or if you like Walt Disney, it will pay to walk across the campus to Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe and see the Harvard Dramatic Club-Radcliffe Idler production of "Dona Rosita," tonight and tomorrow at 8:30 o'clock.

Lorea, an unabashed romanticist, provided this story of a beautiful girl who grows old waiting for her lover who, of course, has been married for years. Slightly impressionistic poetry, music, and dances, add to the mood of gentle wistful tragedy. The Harvard-Radcliffe production, with superior music by Irving Fine, dances by Mary Small, and Phyllis Stohl's generally tight, workman like direction, gets this across with a few lapses. Such are a slow third act in which the actors are a little too influenced by Chekov, and a few overplayed moments in the first two acts.

The acting is markedly superior to the general run of collegiate productions, with the Radcliffe girls adroitly putting their Harvard cousins into the background. Leslie Paul, Radcliffe '45, gives a well-polished performance as the sympathetic aunt, and Claire Pollack is much more than the comic family retainer. Marilyn Whisman in the title role, though inclined to be over-tragic in places, carries the role by her obvious sincerity. For Harvard, George Clay '43, makes the most of some comic lines, and Mendy Weisgal and Donald Gair, both '45, play the supporting role with conviction.