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Strangely enough for a musical comedy, the book is by far the best part of this production. Written by Michael Arlen, Ralph Blum, Malcolm MacDougal, and Charles Osborne, it is intelligent, fast moving, and witty without being filthy. The authors were fortunate in getting James Wood to play the lead comedy role, for Mr. Wood wrings every bit of humor out of the well stocked script...
Four seniors submitted the winning play with Malcolm D. MacDougall, Charles C. Osborne, and Michael J. Arlen doing the book, Donald F. Sandburg the music, and Osborne the lyrics...
...longer prose works is Douglas Bunce's tale of Joseph Catchpenny, who picked his wives according to the rigid rules of romantic fiction. Bunce strikes a nice balance between slapstick and satire to keep his story amusing to the end. "Mrs. Fabian's Little Joke," by Michael Arlen, applies a ridiculous ending to an inane plot, and remains humorous in spite of it all. But a short piece on "Answers to the World's Most Famous Letters" falls down badly at the end. The purposely uninformed commentaries by Thomas Edwards, on quantum mechanics and chess, collapse en route, the former...
...remaining three stories, Arlen's "The Literary Life" is a very witty treatment of a magazine advertisement that was literally true, but Graham's attempt to apply the style of "Lifemanship" to a description of the Harvard Activities Man falls rather flat. A Pooh-style description of Registration by Osborne rounds out the issue in a sprightly manner...
...alike in their tiresome banality. Charles C. Osborne '52 local short-distance swimmer (see CRIMSON, April 19) has contributed a totally pointless poem on men's underwear which is not much better. Least funny of all, however, are two burdensomely long long stories, one by Michael J. Arlen '52 obviously written to fill a gaping hole in the middle of the issue; another by Arlen and Thomas D. Edwards '53 can have no better end in view. They should appeal...