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Taking her third annual stab at summer stock, Miss Ann Corio is currently murdering another play in cold blood at the Cambridge Summer Theatre. Undeterred by the critics' chilly reception of her two former expeditions to the hustings, Ann has gone steadily on in her campaign to make herself the new Duse of the American theatre...
...latest effort, "It's a Wise Child," is an innocuous, frothy story, in which the actors, and even the audience, seem to have a good time. Its leitmotif is the tribulation of two young unmarried ladies who are about to have children (one for Corio, and one for a mysterious creature named Annie, who never does appear.) Variations on the theme, which continually keep running in and out, include the struggle of a bouncing young man, played by Charles Bell, to get ahead in the world, the quarrels between a character evidently inspired by Caspar Milquetoast, played by Robert...
Talking of the Old Howard made her think of Harvard. She feels sure that students will be perfectly at home seeing her in her new tropical role. "I'm still the same Ann Corio even with some clothes on. The old saying 'you can't graduate from Hahverd until you've seen Ann Corio' still holds, I hope...
...Miss Corio's love for Cantabridgians is something more substantial than the stock answer to a stock question, since she has known some "quite well, but of course it wouldn't be right to mention names...
...Clothes don't hamper me at all," says Ann Corio, but they don't add to her charm. Perhaps she had better stick to the Old Howard, where he art may proceed to its own unhampered end and where Harvard men may admire her in the accustomed manner, unabashed by the proprieties of the legitimate stage...