Word: eta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...show of the Pi Eta Club will be the product of many minds, instead of one as has been the custom heretofore, and its sponsors expect the show to be correspondingly better. Of the five or six manuscripts submitted, the plot will be taken from the book of Howard Finney '26. This will form the backbone of the play. A large part of the "patter" as playwrights have it, will be taken from the book of J. S. Murphy '25. Also the high lights of several other manuscripts will be incorporated, as far as is possible without destroying by abridgement...
...Graduate Committee of the Pi Eta Club decided last night that for the first time in over ten years Wellesley and in all probability Smith will be included in the itinerary of the annual show. The first public performance will be in the Pl Eta Theatre in Cambridge. The second will probably be in Brookline, the third in Newburyport with Wellesley, followed by Smith, next on the itinerary, while the last two nights will be in Cambridge...
This evening the Graduate Committee of the Pi Eta Club will meet to decide the plans for this year's show. Although there is nothing definite as yet, it is expected that the show will be similar to last year's combination of mystery and burlesque...
Music has been submitted by both H. E. Scott '22, and J. M. Bruce '24, but none has as yet been selected by Dr. A. T. Davison '05, the musical director. Scott is the author of last year's hit, "Old-Fashioned Girl," called by the Pi Eta reviewer the best song in any Harvard show since the war. J. W. D. Seymour '17, will judge the manuscripts. The regular coach has not as yet been announced...
Last winter he took the leading part in the Pi Eta show and was also in the cast of "Sophie", given by the Boston Theatrical Guild, a play which incurred the anger of Mayor Curley and his staff of city censors...