Word: duvey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tributary began in 1940, under the direction of Eliot Duvey '26, and with the financial aid of the Community Recreation Service. For the past three years, however, it has been completely self-sustaining. It has no stock company, there are only five paid employees, three of whom frequently act in the plays. The other actors, in their daylight hours, follow the more respectable pursuits of the business and household world, emerging at night under the warm magic of the footlights into quite different creatures. During the past eight seasons the Tributary has introduced many spectators to little-known plays...
...audience. The challenge offered by William Shakespeare in "The Taming of the Shrew," for instance, was met on the more or less neutral grounds of Mutual Hall last week and the Trib players won by a technical knockout, a decision with which the audience seemed clearly in accord. Mr. Duvey had rounded up some clever, earthy comedians and they succeeded in making "The Taming of the Shrew" a lot of fun for everyone...
...Players will appear in the Norman Ginsberry translation of the play, under the direction of Eliot Duvey. Proceeds will count as the group's contribution to the college's 70th Anniversary Fund...
...Shaw, as you know, is just turned ninety, and, while some of his work has remained with us in its original freshness, "Arms and the Man" contains much that has become somewhat thin from constant wear. This, combined with a production by Elliot Duvey and a Boston Tributary company of mixed abilities, files the stage with diversion not unpleasant but rather strained...
...chocolate-cream soldier," again Shaw's realist among a group of romantic faddists, provides the tongue with which the hirsute wit is able to spit his epigrams on man, war, and the state of things. Duvey, wagging the tongue weakly on this stage, managers, from time to time, to reiterate--in slightly more colorful idiom--that "diseretion is the better part of valor" and that "he who fights and runs away..." The play might to disregarded in favor of its preface, which, unfortunately, was not circulated beforehand...