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After the choral activity the Thespians will take the stage with a five-act presentation of "Gammer Gurton's Needle," the first full length English comedy, which also features the fine old drinking song, "Backe and Syde Go Bare...
...atmosphere of old "Merrie England" will pervade Lowell House at the Lowell celebration on Thursday, December 13 as members of the house present "Gammer Gurton's Needle," and the house glee club, under the direction of Bartram Kelley 2G, sings a program of comic Elizabethan madrigals...
...cast has been chosen and rehearsals have been started under Alan S. Downes 1G, who is coaching the play. The characters and players are: Diccon, Edward H. Turner '36; Hedge, Walter S. White '36; Tib. Edward V. Malcolm '35; Gammer Gurton, Ralph Lazzaro '36; Cocke, Edmund S. Morgan '37; Dame Chatte, C. Robert Moore '35; Rad. Donald S. Armstrong '35; Baylte, Robert Warner '35; Doll, George W. Wickersham, II '35. The play will be run on the technical side by George T. Skinner '36, stage manager; David I. Hesmer '36, costume manager; and Douglas W. Overton '36, manager...
Among the plays which have been prepared for presentation by the company this summer are "Creatures of Impulse" by W. S. Gilbert; "The Countess Cathleen", by W. B. Yeats; "Skeletons", by Miss Constance Wilcox; and "Gammer Gurton's Needle",--one of the first plays presented by the strolling players in the days of Queen Elizabeth...
...Gammer Gurton's Needle" will be but one of the many interesting plays to be given by the Portmanteau Theatre company during the fall and winter season, when the theatre--a movable, portable playhouse--will be shown in the majority of the principal cities from coast to coast. In addition to a number of plays by Mr. Walker himself, there will be shown several by Lord Dusany, whose "Night at an Inn" is now the biggest one-act sensation that the New York stage has had for many years. Mr. Walker has secured the exclusive American rights to Dusany...