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...Hume 1G. has been engaged by the Delta Upsilon Society to coach the Elizabethan comedy which will be presented in March. He is well known through his work in the Dramatic Club and the "47 Workshop," and his thorough acquaintance with dramatic technique in all departments gives promise that he will make the revival of "Bury Fair" a success...
...distinguished list of revivals of Elizabethan plays, the Delta Upsilon this year adds Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors." The production is ambitious and interesting. For one of the first times in this country a setting is shown such as Munich and other German cities have long used for Shakespearean plays. A dark blue cyclrama drop fills the back of the stage. At front as a kind of inner proscenium, or as replacing the tormentors of former days, are doors at left and right in panels painted to represent marble. Pinkish curtains carry the eye back from the drop curtain...
...Comedy of Errors," to be given tonight at Brattle Hall by the Harvard Chapter of Delta Upsilon, offers an unusual opportunity for seeing one of the funniest of Elizabethan comedies presented under conditions which practically assure its success. Elaborate costumes, competent stage direction, well selected music, more than ordinary amateur histrionic talent, together with Shakespeare's most uproarious humor, are considerations which render it most probable that this production will come up to the high standard of Delta Upsilon performances...
Although this is the first time that the Delta Upsilon has given a Shake-spearian play in the course of its revivals of Elizabethan dramas, the precedent set will not necessarily be followed in the future...
...Modern Language Conference. Addresses on "The Genealogy of the Elizabethan Ghost," by Dr. C. E. Whitmore, and "The Fable," by M. E. Smith, in Common Room, Conant Hall...