Word: barnumism
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...Hasty Pudding Club has announced that it will offer as its annual production a musical comedy, "Barnum Was Right," which is described as "syncopated scenario" in two acts and four scenes. The book and lyrics are by R. E. Sherwood '18, and the music by S. P. Sears '17, with several interpolated musical numbers by F. M. Trainer '19, J. B. Mahon, Jr., '20, and A. L. Steinert...
...Barnum Was Right," as originally written by Sherwood and Sears, was selected for production by the Hasty Pudding Club in 1917, but the declaration of war necessitated the temporary abandonment of the play. Sherwood, who was President of the Lampoon while in College, served at the front during the war with the Canadian Black Watch and was wounded and gassed in action. Sears was a lieutenant in the United States Navy winning the Distinguished Service Medal...
...story of "Barnum Was Right" centres about the activities of a motion picture company which goes to Egypt in search of local color meeting with a number of highly amusing and altogether unexpected adventures en route...
...production of this new show calls to mind the last spring play that was to have been given, but which never appeared. Just as "Barnum Was Right" was ready for an expectant public the war broke--and to the last scene shifter and chorus man the company entered the service. Of the four officers of the club who signed the notice of the withdrawal of the show, two were killed and two were wounded. Of the chorus six were killed and as many more were wounded and gassed. This record is no greater than that of any other portion...
...upon as the annual spring production of the Hasty Pudding Club. As in previous years these theatricals will take the form of a light musical comedy. An unusually melodious score has been composed by F. W. hatch '19, and in addition several of Samuel Sears' more tuneful songs from "Barnum Was Right," the show whose presentation last year was prevented by the war, will be used...