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...slunk away, the audience found nothing to divert it from the incredibly hoary spectacle of the two small, extremely stagey children choosing to remain with kind, gentle Nancy. Not even this situation satisfied Playwright Carl Henkle's taste for the archaic. He also introduced an inarticulate bumpkin who loved Nancy, who found courage to say so just before the final curtain. Margaret Barnstead played Nancy with great earnestness...
...Bump, Bumpkin...
...ground. A plank was laid across his abdomen, an automobile driven towards him with the righthand wheels on the plank. Otis Dowland empurpled his face with straining, scowled up at the crowd, as the automobile ascended its human bump. The car's driver, a stupid bumpkin, stalled the engine in mid-plank. Strongman Dowland grimaced, retched, shrieked. The car was pushed away. Strongman was whisked to a hospital, where doctors pronounced his vitals to be seriously mashed...
FATA MORGANA -Hungarian comedy in which the country bumpkin bumps abruptly into one night of love...
...other leading parts of those of Peer, an omniscient deacon, whose pretensions to learning afford comic opportunities; Jeppe, the father of Erasmus, whose paternal pride adds a sympathetic touch to the play; Nille, an old peasant woman; and Jacob, a country bumpkin. They are played by V. P. Williamson Unc., D. T. Eaton Unc., Miss Tripp of Radcliffe, and R. H. L. Skinner '22, respectively...