Word: durbars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre, constructed at a cost of $450,000, is to be the showplace of the Triangle Club (most famed college musical comedy organization), founded in 1893 by Author Booth Tarkington. Annually the club produces and takes on tour a homemade theatrical durbar, written, musicalized and acted by undergraduates fortunate enough to gain club membership. The largest individual donation ($250,000) to the theatre, which rises like a Norman barn in front of the railroad station, came from Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, '88, president of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. No Triangle mummer himself, the building bears his name...