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Freshiinan Show Wins

Enthusiastic Comments

 

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bawdy, and we know of one member
of the audience who definitely enjoy-
ed himself. ,

As to the cast—it was on the whole
excellent, and understood’ the spirit

of the play and stayed in it through-
out. Winifred Safford was a perfect
heroine from the time the curtain
rose to surprise her engaged in sing-

 

cheery than it does today. They set
a standard of behavior which makes
the conduct of their modern proto-
types look definitely shabby.

The scene in the Greeks was by far
the best scene in the play, probably
because there were more people on
the stage, and it was kept alive by
the casual movements of the men at
the bar. Betty Stainton availed her-
self of the setting to deliver from the
bottom of her heart a mournful torch
song to the effect that There Ain’t
No Good in Men, and by the time she

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ing hymns in quite the flattest voice; finished we were fairly well persuaded
heard ‘since Lantern Night, to the! to her point of view.

final moment when she gazed up into
the handsome’ countenance of True
Blue Harold (Helen Harvey) and be-
gan to make plans for the future.
Harold combined for us all the ster-
ling qualities of the man who not only
eats Wheaties every morning for
breakfast, and uses Life Buoy Soap
religiously, but who sees his dentist
not twice, but three times a year.
Miss Harvey recalled Tom Mix and
our childhood days when she burst
into the Greeks and snatched Little
Nell from the brink of destruction as
though it were all in a day’s work.
Letitia. Brown wore her. black.frock
coat and twirled her mustache in the
manner of the best erlemy of women
and civilization in general. As Mali-

cious Montague she set the tone for,
leered |
through a window in the first act and| Elizabeth Washburn
uttered a laugh which made it look| Wright, as the parents of- Little Nell,'a great desire to forget it-all,
Together with; were all that Louisa M. Aleott and

her performance when she

bad for Little Nell.

 

Miss Stainton also deserves a great
deal of credit for the lyrics to the
songs which she composed, and into
which she: managed to inject a cer-
tain amount of sense. Modern lyric-
ists might. copy her to their profit.
The casual inhabitant of thé Greeks
who appealed to us most was the very
innocous alcoholic created by Eliza-
beth Davis, but the other bar flies
were very much at home with their
feet on the brass rail. We may say
that the ease with which the most
upstanding members of the class of
1987 were converted into gentlemen
of..lowcharacter.alarmedus_a_ bit.
They were a little too good.

As for those who took the parts
of the more genteel] members of. the
group created by the authors, they
were -on the whole very satisfactory.
and Amelia

from the Greeks” she made that cele-|The mother was such a perfect help- |

brated establishment look far more

mate that we

z %
screaming at times, But the urgé pass-
ed off fortunately.

The dear Bryn Mawr girls were

that will express our feelings on the
subject of the personalities which flit-
ted about in high shoes through our
hallowed halls in the dim, dark days.
Helen Taft (M. Lee Powell) appear-
ed before our startled eyes and sang a
touching ditty to the effect that she
wanted to marry Freddy and he want-
ed to marry her, and did it with spirit,
to say the least. Her rendition of
the ballad deserves great praise as
she was called into the play at the
last moment and had never rehearsed
with the cast before the big moment.

Elizabeth Lyle created a Marion
Park, who had as good a disposition
then as she has now, although she
hardly commanded the instant atten-
tion ofthe students in meetings which
is hers today. One feature of: the
scene in Taylor Hall which attracted
us was Miss Seltzer’s €ance—done in
high-buttoned shoes, above the tops
| of which gleamed the bare legs of :the
modern intellectuals:

In general, then, the cast perform-
ed its duties well and moved: about
competently. within. the limits. set by
the authors. There were times when
the stage was on the verge of a lin-
gering death, speeches were delivered
from behind pillars, posts, and dur- |
|ing exits out back doors,

 

charming—there isn’t any other word

 

in dirty white ducks and grimy sweat
shirts, we can only say. that they did
their work well, and the gods will re-

ward them in the future if the world
does not at the moment. Edith Rose
directed the play as a unit, and’ she
gave it a certain spirit and atmosphere
which contributed materially to its
success. Helen Fisher shouldered the
thankless job of stage manager, and
the speed with which the sets -were
changed was evidence of her efficiency.
Not once did the curtain rise on a
stage hand in. a compromising posi-

tion and that is a tribute to. Miss’

Fisher and her assistants,

Olga Muller was head of the com-
mittee on construction, and she built
an excellent set for the scene in the
Greeks, and utilized the brown cyc
to create a very effective interior for
the home of the heroine. The scen-
ery had a certain vitality about it,
which helped to make up for the fact
that Varsity Dramat’s best paint buck-
et held the glue which was responsi-
ble for a connection here and there. °

Mary Harwood seems to us to have
done the most difficult work of all
with the greatest degree of success.!
She was in charge of costumes, and
no one could deny: that the play was
costumed effectively and more or less
in period, which is more than can be
said for any Freshman Show we have
ever seen. Every effort was made to,

and the| put the characters on the stage look-

actors were occasionally overcome by | ing like what they were supposed to

but represent, and there was no doubt in

 

these were minor points in the per- jour minds as to what we were looking |
the gentlemen: known as the “sneaks|her school would have us think them. formance.

jat, as there has’ been#in past years.

As for. those members of the class ‘The costumes, which were rented, were

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were on the verge of ; who-spent the week before the show intelligently chosen;) and those which
i

ed the

were made were intelligently made.
Than that we know of ponte more
10 say ——

Lucille Faweett; besides being a
drunken lady in the Greeks, provided
the properties and at the crucial mo-
ment her efficiency stood the test.
When the time came True Blue Har-
old had his revolver with which to
shoot Malicious Montague, and the
Herald Tribune was in Little Nell’s
house when the time came for her
father to read of the death of that
same Montague.

Lights were done by Letitia Brown,
and were welt handled. She did not
give way to the impressionistic frenzy
which has driven some freshman
light chairman to stage the entire
show. in complete darkness, and we
were duly thankful. Each of these
chairmen had their committees, which
worked well and honestly, and we can
only say that the time will come,
when the world is communistic, that
they will be glad they had the experj-
ence.

Sophie Hemphill and Margaret
Jackson, as heads of publicity and of
business, managed to collect a good-
ly audience for the performance, and

they must have heaved a sigh of re-

lief when they found by the end of
the first act that they had not deceiv-
public when they persuaded
them that they could not afford: to
‘miss Never Darken My Door Again.
The class of 1937 distinguished itself
honorably, and in addition kept its
little, green turtle all to itself. Merits
may.come and go, but if the Fresh-
man Show is any indication, the class
of 1937 will go on forever.—S. J.

 

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