Word: idlers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presentation of "Lilies of the Field," John Hastings Turner's comedy, by the Radcliffe Idlers at Agassiz Hall, is unusual among amateur performances in that the play was distinctly less interesting than the acting. Such at least was the verdict of the CRIMSON critic, who saw little to his taste in the coy tale of two Campfire girls (more or less) adventuring in dear old London. The acting of the Idler comediennes, and their Radcliffe colleagues, though marked by the common defeats of amateur theatrics, possessed enough freshness and spontaneity to lift the performances above the average of its kind...
Certainly "Lilies of the Field" is vastly more successful than the Idler's venture last year with the banal pretentiousness of Phillip Barry's "Hotel Universe." Tonight's performance, which will be the last, will doubtless profit from the experience of the first, and deserves an increased attendance. There will be dancing after the performance...
Appearing in their first production of the season, members of the Harvard Dramatic Club, assisted by the Radcliffe Idler Society, will give "Charles and Mary" by Joan Temple as their annual winter production. The first performance of this play is tonight at 8.20 o'clock in Brattle Hall, and it will be given tomorrow and Friday night also at the same time and place. All three presentations will be followed by dancing until 1 o'clock...
...president of the club this year is J. F. Joyce '32, who takes the part of the hero, Charles Lamb. Mary Lamb, his dependent sister, is being taken by Jane Mast of the Idler Society, who has been cast in many other Dramatic Club plays. G. E. Mottla '32, William West '32, and O. V. Wooten, are vice-president, treasurer, and secretary respectively of the organization. The Club will elect new officers in the next few weeks and will soon start work on the spring play...
...annual Christmas Miracle Play, on Sunday afternoon, December 20, against the cathedral background in the Germanic Museum. The title of the play and the exact time of presentation has not been fully decided. As in "Charles and Mary" the feminine parts will be taken by members of the Radcliffe Idler Club...