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...first American production of the very earliest of the English folk comedies. "Gammer Gurton's Needle," is to be presented next fall by Stuart Walker, creater of the Portmanteau Theatre. That Mr. Walker contemplates several performances of this rollicking, jovial, and wholly delightful comedy, brought back from that almost forgotten time of Christ's College, Cambridge (1575), during the coming Portmanteau tour is a matter for congratulation and there will be many who will wish to see it, partly for the memories it will revive and partly for the opportunity to see just what sort of an evening's entertainment...
...recent performance of "Gammer Gurton's Needle," presented by the Portmanteau Theatre company before the faculty and student body of Amherst College, a woman was heard to explain to her companion that "Stuart Walker wrote one of these plays and Clyde Fitch wrote 'Gammer Gurton's Needle.'" The fact that Clyde Fitch was not born until some two hundred years after the writing of the comedy did not seem to count. But the conversation brings to light several interesting facts about the actual authorship of the play, generally attributed to John Still, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and formerly resident...