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With its bawdy 16th Century English translated into modern slang, "Gammer Gurton's Needle" will convulse Lowell House after its annual Christmas and birthday dinner honoring President A. Lawrence Lowell, emeritus, Friday, December...
This second recorded English comedy involves a quarrel between Dame Gurton, Jack Prudden '42, and Dame Chat, Donald Eldredge '43, over a needle lost while Gammer is mending the breeches of her servant Hodge, Dan Shook '44. Diccon, Howard Oedel '43, the villain who keeps the quarrel going, is foiled by Master Bayly, Charles Breuning '42, who finds the needle in a surprise ending after Dr. Rat, William Musgrave '42, has failed...
...Revenger's Tragedy, by Cyril Tourneur, was the first of the plays read. The second was "Gammer Gurton's Needle," written as for a student production by "S", a student at Cambridge in the fifteenth century, whose full name has been lost to posterity...
...offered to the nation at a price considerably less than its assessed quarter-million-pound value, in spite of a tempting U. S. offer of "any reasonable price." The Wise library contains first editions of nearly every famous English poet from the time of Spenser, in drama ranges from Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575) to Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (1918). What the British Museum Library actually paid to get this sizable addition (biggest since 1846) was not divulged. Nothing official was said about the embarrassing subject, but it was unofficially felt that Thomas James Wise had paid...
Alan S. Downer 1G is directing the play. The cast follows: Diccon, Edward H. Turner '36; Hodge, Walter S. White '36; Tyb, Edward V. Malcolm '35; Gammer Gurton, Ralph Lazzaro '36; Cocke, Edmund S. Morgan '37; Dame Chatte, C. Robert Moore '35; Doctor Rat, Donald Armstrong '35; Mayster Baylye, Robert Warner '35; Doll, George W. Wickersham, II '35; Stage Manager, D. Stuart DeBard...