Word: gurton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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 his forger...
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...
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...
...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...