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Barry Bingham '28 will play the part of Harlequin, who is the central figure in the play. Bingham played the leading part in last spring's revival of "Brown of Harvard", and has had experience in other productions of the Dramatic Club...
...early eighteenth century Italian comedy was flourishing, but was written and produced in slap-stick style, with stock characters and stereo typed jokes. Gozzi broke from this familiar fashion, and while he kept most of the stock characters, like Harlequin and Pantaloon, he wove around them a romantic story, taken from the Arabian Nights and embellished with a good deal of humor not entirely of the slapstick variety. His work is in some sense the flower of the Comedie del Arte of early Italian drama, and it-will be interesting to see on the modern stage his combination...
...question of ethics both interesting and perplexing confronts, the few thinking beings who care to enjoy their prerogative. In the present instance the judge who decided in favor of the lesser evil was undoubtedly acting both sanely and with a judicial preciseness. Better a Tartuffe dead and a harlequin living, than more moss covered morals and a reign of petty terror. Yet it is rather unfortunate that the issue could not have been more clear cut and satisfying. Wowseries are often quite as tire some as ethical sentimentalizing...
Interlocutor-The Right Honorable Philip Snowden, P.C.,* M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Macdonald Laborite Government (1924). Respondent-The Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, P.C.,* C.H.,† Chancellor of the Exchequer in the present Baldwin Conservative Government. Harlequin-John Joseph Jones, M.P. from West Ham, famed as "Jumping Jack Jones" (TIME, April 7, 1924). THE PLAYLET...
...Paraclete in his time plays many parts. Like the famous Italian lightning change actor. Fregolu whose name he takes, he can shift at will from Gypsy Fortune-Teller to American Theatrical-Manager, from the brazen trigamist to the tender agent of phonograph records, from Capuchin Monk to Harlequin himself in the latest of his thousand and one Harlequinades. Such sudden shifts will offer a splendid opportunity for the versatile acting of Eduardo Sanchez '26, the President of the Harvard Dramatic Club...