El Mentidero de Comediantes

EL MENTIDERO DE COMEDIANTES The third annual Fulbright Alumni Association convention will be held on the Berkeley campus of the University of California on September 4-6, 1980. For further information, please contact Professor W. Goldsmith, Convention Management Chairman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley 94720. The 1980 meeting of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association will be at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, Colorado, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 16-18 October. Local arrangements are being made by Lt. Col. Jim Gaston of the United States Air Force Academy and Professor David Lindstrom of Colorado State University. For information about the program, write to Professor Ingeborg Carlson, Executive Director of the RMMLA, Dept. of Foreign Languages, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281. Los empeños de una casa, by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, opened on 2 November 1979 at the Teatro de la Nación in Mexico City under the direction of Luis G. Basurto. The first Louisiana Conference on Hispanic Languages and Literatures, sponsored by Louisiana State University and Tulane University, was held February 28-March 1 in Baton Rouge on the campus of LSU. Frederick A. de Armas of LSU was program chairman for this year, and Gilbert Paolini of Tulane will serve in that capacity for the 1981 meeting, the weekend preceding Mardi Gras, in New Orleans. At LSU, There were four sections devoted to Golden Age drama; the following comediantes read papers in these sections: Manuel Delgado, Robert L. Fiore, Susan Fischer, Armando Garzón-Blanco, Antonio González, Daniel L. Heiple, Everett W. Hesse, Anthony C. Lo Re, José Antonio Madrigal, Raymond MacCurdy, William McCrary, Edward Nagy, Susan Niehoff, Thomas A. O'Connor, Anne M. Pasero, Matthew D. Stroud, Richard W. Tyler, Geoffrey M. Voght, and Shirley B. Whitaker. 93 94Bulletin ofthe Comediantes A special session on the comedia, organized by Professor Donald E. Schmiedel of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is scheduled for the AATSP meeting of August 11-13 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The participants and their topics are: Glen F. Dille, Bradley University, «Leonor, 'la linda embustera ' of Enriquez Gomez's Contra el amor no hay engaños»; Jean S. Chittenden , Trinity University, «The Monarch/Mother in Tirso de Molina»; Juan O. Valencia, University of Cincinnati, «la dramatización de la mujer bíblica en tres comedias del Siglo de Oro»; Ruth Lundelius, University of Georgia,«Theatricality and Mores: The mujer varonil in the Figueroa Brothers' La dama capitán»; and Louis C. Pérez, Pennsylvania State University, «La verdad se encubre en vano.» The title of the session itself is «Para enredar treinta mundos: Women in the Golden Age Comedia.» The plays performed during the 1980 Siglo de Oro Drama Festival at El Chamizal (El Paso, Texas), March 7-22, were: Sor Juana's Amor es más laberinto, Lope's El caballero de Olmedo, a selection of fivepasos by Lope de Rueda, Valdivielso's La amistad en peligro, Ruiz de Alarcón's Las paredes oyen and Los empeños de un engaño, Lope's La creación del mundo and El anzuelo de Fenisa, Rojas' La Celestina, Calderón's La vida es sueño, La dama duende, and El gran teatro del mundo, and Rojas Zorrilla's Donde hay agravios, no hay celos. A fully staged presentation of Calderón's Celos aun del aire matan, with music by Juan Hidalgo, will be given at Trinity University, San Antonio, on February 12, 13, 14, 20, and 21, 1981. The event is under the direction of Matthew D. Stroud of Trinity University, who will be ably assisted by Gerald R. Benjamin (musical director) and Rosalind Philips (voice coach). The Ewing Halsell Foundation of San Antonio has donated $23,000 for the production of the play at Trinity and for the publication of a scholarly edition of thè text, accompanied by an English translation. Professor Stroud will also be responsible for the edition and translation, which will be published by Trinity University Press to coincide, it is hoped, with the opening of the play. Professor José A. Madrigal (Auburn University) will chair and Professor Robert Fiore (Michigan State University) will...