Word: alger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taussig '22, and W. J. Banes '22, was exceptionally good, it was the leading specialty numbers which pleased the audience most and drew prolonged applause last evening. The special pantomine on the "Rape of the Lock" was the outstanding feature, while the original songs and dances of Joseph Alger Jr. '22 and Taussig as "The Drunken sisters", a burlesque on the Duncan Sisters of "Tip Top" were also very successful. "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" was the other leading specialty which lent an agreeble taste to the entire show...
...Only Natural", a musical comedy, was written by W. C. Jackson '22 and R. C. Rogers '23, with the assistance of Edgar Scott '20. The music was written by Joseph Alger Jr. '22, Howard Elliott Jr. '22, S. P. Moorehead '22, and A. L. Steinert...
...play opens with a house party, given in the White Mountains by Mr. Burroughs (Joseph Alger Jr. '22), a wealthy American business man: In the first act Archie Carr (Joseph Larocque Jr. '23) is accepted by the beautiful Evangeline (W. J. Banes '22), daughter of Burroughts, but throught the inadvertent meddling of Clive (Huntington Brown '22), a semi-insane English friend of the Burroughs family, the blacker side of Carr's past is revealed and he is ejected from the house party...
Many changes of scenery and the introduction of specialty numbers vary the program. C. A. Tierney '22 has the leading role in the pantomime representing "The Shooting of Dan McGrew". Joseph Alger Jr. '22 and F. B. Taussig '22 will give the "Drunken Sisters", a burlesque of the songs and dances of the Duncan Sisters...
Among the specialty numbers will be one in which four members of the female chorus will dance in hoop-skirts and the accompanying dress of the nineteenth century, and a second where another quartet will enact a burlesque on Joseph,, Alger '22 and F. B. Taussig '22 will present a specialty number, a take off on the Duncan sisters...