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College news, May 13, 1931
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May 13, 1931
THE COLLEGE NEWS
Page 3
‘The Mikado’ F ulfills
High Expectations
Continued. from Page One
entrance the music is wreathed in smiles.
With someone like Miss Drake in the
part of Yum-Yum, we do not see how
it could be otherwise. Her grace in itself
is a perpetual source of delight, and her
Japanese manner of seeming actually to
glide about the stage was a.source of
wonder as well. -But what is more, she
brought-to the part a vitality which ex-
itself to the other characters.
Whenever she was on the stage.the ac-
tion, never slow, became brisker, and
the entire atmosphere. brightened as if a
ray Of sunshine had struck the stage.
Not that: Miss Drake’s Yum-Yum ‘is
entirely a” sunshine girl; while naive to
a certain extent, as when she admits her
beauty. in “a mood of the most egotistic
innocence,” to: use.a more or less happy
phrase of Mr.*Dunhill’s, she is also very
worldly wise on such subjects as being
buried aliye. Her--interruption of Ka-
tisha’s disclosure with an “Ah-ha! I
know,” is almost smug. At any/rate,
she is irresistible, even when she romped
around sharp and with a suggestion of
__shrillness...But. perhgps--she -reached her
highest. point after the-quartet, when she
and Nanki-Poo prance off the stage to-
gether, rather like the owl and the pussy
cat. Nanki-Poo, however; was a worthy
mate, for he possessed all the smoothness
and grace that Miss Burrows, in a very
fetching costume, could give him. His
gestures, purposely / stylized, and _ blue-
stockinged legs made him a very decora-
tive, if not too skillful, second trombone.
Even so, one wonders how-he could have
resisted the entreaties of Katisha, at least
when_played_by. Miss. Zeben..No- one. of
the cast was so well suited as she to
portray a role which depende’l so’ largely
-.....0n.singing, For Katisha’s arias, with the| *’
Sun
exception of Yum- -Yum’s “The
Whose Rays,” constitute the only music
of a serious nature in “The Mikado;”
the rest is’ witty, sometimes melodic;
sometimes rhythmic, and often graphic
accompaniment to the .comedy of the
libretto.
Miss Zeben’s ‘voice has a maturity
possessed by no other member of the
cast. She has also more natural power,
and knows something about how to use
‘ her. voice, which has great dramatic _pos-
sibilities. Miss Zeben sustained the agi-
tation of “Oh Fool, that flee-est My hal-
lowed joys’ with good theatrical effect,
and in “Hearts do not break” -she-came
very close to tragedy. But she was given
opportunity to display her talents for
comedy as well, and capitalized on such
lines as “I am an acquired taste.” Much
as we liked Miss Zeben as Lady Jane in
“Patience,” and as Ruth in “The Pirates,”
her talents, both musical and histrionic,
have never shown to better advantage
than in the role of Katisha, and we
feel that she always will be missed.
Miss Wood, as her father-in-law elect,
was also excellent. She portrayed the
starchy, though ferocious,. monarch with
no little humor, and was actively assisted
by Miss Tyler -as a frolicsome parasol-
bearer.
Miss Evers’ Pooh-Bah -was the very
essence of a sneer. Her deep and sure
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The thirty months’ course, pro- ,
viding an intensive and varied
experience through the _ case
study methods, leads to the
voice was a pleasing complement to her
acting, which, of necessity, did not have
a great deal of variety.
lord, if her voice did seem to~ get’ below
her, but that is the penalty one pays for
being a lady in gentleman's’ clothing.
Yum-Yum’s little playmates, _ Pitti-
Sing and Peep-Bo wer¢ as charming as
they should be. Miss Polachek’s voice is
fresh and sweet, but/it lacks power, and
her diction, especially in her description
of the executions made it even harder
for her to bé heard. ‘
The set for’ the second att, with its
pagoda and tfees, caught even more than
the first, the spirit of “many a. screen
and. fan,”/ and provided a lovely back-
ground for the brilliance of the costumes.
As a matter of fact, the entire perforrii-
ance might have been said to glitter. Not
only did the orchestra, conducted by Mr.
Willoughby, in-spite of a-sprained ankle,
bring out this quality in the music, but
‘the cast and chorus, through their brisk-
ness and vitality, did the same for the
action and the dialogue. Despite the
naturalism and freshness which charac-
terized the performance, it is obvious that
great care must have been taken’ over
every detail. Mr.-Witloughby and. Miss
Shatighnessy, however, were well re-
warded’ by the enthusiastic reception. of
their efforts.
There was nothing of politeness in the
applause of the audience. Like ourselves,
they clapped spontaneously and from
sheer delight at the manner in which
their hopes were realized. i Gs:
The cast was as follows: ’
The Mikado of Japan, Rebecca Wood, ’33
Nanki-Poo, his son,
Q * Angelyn Burrows, 31
Ko-Ko, Lord High Executioner of
PN oasis visti scan Helen Bell, ’31
Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything
RG iis ana Louise Evers, ’32
Pishe ‘Bet, a Noble Lord,
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Wards of ey
Yung Yum. .......i4:. Mary Polk Drake,. ’31
PEBDEBD |. .56is.: Katharine Thurber, ’31
Katisha, an Elderly Lady,
Sheema Zeben, 31
Conductor and musical director, F. H.
Ernest Willoughby, A.R.C.M. Director,
Margaret Shaughnessy, 31. Assistant
director: Denise Gallaudet, ’32. Chorus
accompanist, Vernon A. Hammond. The
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Reviéws ‘Lanterns’
‘Continued from Page One
This would explain the sur-
success.
prising’ goodness. of . Miss- Perkins’
There’s a Thin Mist. I use “romantic”
in its most casual, obvious and perhaps
unintelligible sense; but, since we so
rarely recognize any mood as poetic ex-
cept in the light of what we know from
the Romantic Poets, I need not define the
term. The conclusion is. that young
women are romantic, while young men
whip up a mood to’ poetry as one whips
the white of an egg to froth. The
effort is muscular, not emotional, and J
am still unable to see such: effort as the
way to poetry. The poetry in this num-
bey of “The Lantern” seems to me to
have been properly made.
Indifference to English
Let me now record a certain common
ground I -find in all college publications.
I note a cheerful indifference to the fact
that English words when written are
conventionally supposed to. mean some-
thing, to convey an idea. That this in-
difference is to be found chiefly in the
prose only bears out the old belief that
it is easier to write. verse.
does so. quickly weary before the
subtlety of an English sentence, so easily
get bogged in its own vocabulary. These
are some of the things I have found:
“He. threw the paper on the window
seat, and waited . . .”
“It made-him feel secure in a tight
house, before a warm fire...”
' “With eyes swimming like blue gulfs
OF Oi ce
Even quotations from other writers
seem to have caught this air of indiffer-
ence, for -I note that “Mrs. Donavan says,
‘She has little idea of honor nor of per-
sonal obligation.’ ”
—~One-comes—back—with pleasure to more |
general matters, thankful that “The Lan-
fern”. was able to stir one’s mind, even
though the stirring seems to have stopped
short of producing a review. In a hasty
effort to repair this failure, let me add
some formless notes.
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Water. for My .Stain—unfair .to.take
notes about it*in its unfinished form,
Good practice writing, dangerous ghost
of Henry James, or perhaps’ it’s Edith
Wharton. One can only guess. Sense
of character. seems good, but with all
the shyness about anything’ happening
one wonders if it will come off in the end.
But exceflent practice writing, even if a
shade too “silver,” “grey,” etc.
. The technical sense and honesty of the
two poems. is very pleasing.
Now to end with the warning that I
seem to have read “The Lantern” .and
made these notes with a complete dis-
regard -of- its. being an. undergraduate
publication. This, I believe, has made
my words too hard. If one moves to
another position and asks, what of it as
undergraduate work? the answer is much
kinder. The level of ‘the work is high,
and, most excellent thing, is maintained
throughout.
Freshmen Plays
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| Modern Architecture
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Radio City for not being modern
enough. But modern architecture ‘is
not a transition period to modernistic.
Modernistic style is merely a phase of
queer designs. Modern architecture is
humane. ‘Builders of earlier genera-
tions gave no thought to those who
would have to live in their houses.
Today the architect draws up plans
with a technical man and according to
what his client wants. Simplicity
makes harmony difficult and today it
is harmony that is important. It is
the whole that strikes, not one window
or door, as in the last century. Freud
has influenced all modern thought and
art and-sown in it a desire for contact
with everything around it.
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of buildings, beginning with the artistic
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twentieth centuries, work of Méndels-
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Russian architects. Next he showed
American moderns. In general New
York skyscrapers go up simply to end
in an inappropriate: spire which can
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ican engineers have come nearer than
architects to the international modern
ideal..This was followed by a film of
the Van Nelle factory and more slides
showing dyke construction and Dutch
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