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delegrate for 1974-77. The Executive Committee also elected Professor Charlotte Stern to complete the unexpired term of Professor Sidney F. Wexler, who had recently resigned. Thus, Professor Stern becomes Secretary for 1974 and will succeed to the chairmanship of Spanish 3 in 1975. Professor Arthur M. Fox pointed out that he and other Canadian colleagues had not received the announcement of the luncheon and urged that this and other matters be handled in a more business-like fashion in the future. Respectfully submitted, JAMES A. PARR Secretary, Spanish 3, 1973 EL MENTIDERO DE COMEDIANTES A follow-up to the announcement appearing in the fall 1972 issue, concerning the 1973 "Teatro Español Del Amo" activities at California State University , Los Angeles, should have appeared in the last issue. Herewith an attempt to remedy that oversight. For Comediantes, the highlights of the summer-long series of events were the staging of El burlador de Seviïïa, the Auto de los reyes magos, the Representaci ón del nacimiento de Nuestro Señor, La sibila Casandra, Las aceitunas , and La cueva de Salamanca by a troupe of professional actors from Madrid, joined by outstanding local talent. Professor Bruce Wardropper taught "Golden Age Theatre" and "Selected Medieval and Renaissance Spanish Dramatists" in the regular summer session at CSULA and participated in a symposium on Don Juan Tenorio at the Plaza de la Raza in East Los Angeles . Also presenting papers in the symposium were Ruth Lee Kennedy, Joseph H. Silverman, Luciano Garcia Lorenzo (editor of Segismundo), Robert ter Horst, Arturo Serrano-Plaja, and Angel Berenguer. « * * » The Editor takes this opportunity to express his appreciation to the faculty and students of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Southern California, for approving a subvention of $500 toward the cost of printing this issue. As a result of this subsidy, we are able to expand Vol. 26 to approximately 100 pages, as compared to the usual 60. We anticipate that the increased subscription revenue, effective next year, will enable us to maintain the new format of about 50 pages each issue. * » # O 110 persons signed the attendance sheets circulated at the 1973 Spanish 3 session. Actual attendance is estimated to have been approximately 150, however .« « « » Professor A. Julián Valbuena announces that the topic for the 1974 comedia seminar in December, at the MLA convention, is "The Structure of the Spanish Golden Age Comedia" an approach to the comedia through the study of the dramatic form as an organic structural pattern to convey the meaning of the play. All who are interested in attending should write to Professor Valbuena at the University of Delaware, and a place will be reserved for the first thirty-five requests. Reading materials will be mailed out around October 1. * * * * In addition to Professor Veni Williamson 's annual bibliography, the fol41 lowing articles and reviews are scheduled for the fall 1974 number: "Lucifer and El burlador de SevilM' by Sandra L. Brown; "Dramatic Perspective in Calderón's El mayor monstruo los celos" by Edward H. Friedman; "Alarc ón's La verdad sospechosa: Meaning and Didacticism" by John G. Morton; "Doña Ana's Seduction in El burlador de SeviUa" by Vicente Cabrera; "The Serious Nature of Comedy: The Comedia de Sepúlveda" by Robert L. Hathaway ; and reviews of John Llhani's El lenguaje de Lucas Fernández: estudio del dialecto sayagués, William Wilson's Guillen de Castro, and Ion T. Agheana's The Situational Drama of Tirso de Molina , and Edwin Honig's Calderón and the Seizures of Honor. e e # » We are pleased to announce the election of Professor Jack H. Parker as Vice-President of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese . Professor Parker will become President in 1975. S * * 9 In other elections, Professor William M. Whitby has been chosen to succeed Professor John Lihani on the Executive Committee of Spanish 3. Professor Whitby will serve a five-year term (1974-79), becoming Secretary of the section in 1978 and Chairman in his final year on the Committee. * * » * There is a saddening note, which we have left for last. Dr. Cyril A. Jones, Fellow in Spanish at Trinity College, Oxford...