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...heart of the cattle country at Red Fork Ranch on the Chisholm Trail" is the locale of this absolutely fresh, vigorous and entertaining story of cowboys and Indians in the Southwest of the 1880's. Far from being of purely juvenile interest it has an historical value all the more welcome because of the authentic perspective it furnishes of the lives of our western forefathers, and the vast movements of humanity from east to west following the Civil War. Those who cherish memories of the true West and are surfeited with the false and discordant atmosphere shed by cheap novels...
...title role of Hassan the confectioner, is vice-president of the Dramatic Club. He has had parts in "The Orange Comedy" by Gilbert Seldes '14, produced in the fall of 1926, and in the modern version of the "Taming of the Shrew" which was staged last spring. In "The Chisholm Trail" last fall he made a hit in the character of Tom Stevens, the excitable ranchman who furnished the principal comedy relief...
...last several plays which the club has produced, it is pointed out, have been accepted and produced by Broadway theatres,and negotiations for the movie rights of the "Chisholm Trail", the club's last production, are now under...
Both the play and the presentation may be criticized. Nevertheless the spirit of the Dramatic Club and its genuine effort to produce something memorable will bear no caviling. "The Chisholm Trail" was satisfying if only because of its sincerity; it was played as it was written--quickly, soberly, in short, effectively...
...Passos, Lawson, type, whether as burlesque, original or modernization. Where, the question has been propounded, are new examples of the old methods? Where is the college parallel to George Kelly, to Maxwell Anderson? It is not, one may say quite assuredly, to be found in "The Chisholm Trail", but it does lie a great deal nearer it than, say, "The Orange Comedy...