HDC PLANS WORLD PREMIERE; GLEE CLUB TO GIVE CONCERT

With opening night only a week away, the Harvard Dramatic Club-Radcliffe Idler world premiere production of "Owen Wingrave," by Henry James, is entering final rehearsals for performances next Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Brattle Hall. Curtain raiser for the program is Alfred De Musset's "A Door Must Be Open or Shut."

Edward W. Franklin '47 will be featured in the title role of Owen Wingrave, a young Englishman with courage to defy his family's military and imperialistic ideals. Playing the feminine lead, the part of Owen's flancee, will be Miss Leslie Paul, Radcliffe '45, President of Idler.

Mr. James's unpublished and heretofore unproduced work is the fourth major joint production of HDC and Idler. Predecessors of "Owen Wingrave" in this respect are "Mashenka," which was produced on Broadway after its staging here and of which the Dramatic Club received many requests for performances in other cities; the dynamic "Dona Rosita"; and last year's hit, "Playboy of the Western World."