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Evidently your reviewer didn't bother to read his own review (or perhaps he suffered a recurrence of an old war injury) for exactly a month later in writing of the Radcliffe Idler's production of Fletcher's "Rule A Wife And Have A Wife" he says ". . . the audience . . . was consistently delighted by the general feeling that it was seeing an intelligent and tasteful effort by a well-directed college dramatic group--the first chance anyone has had in Cambridge this fall to indulge in such a feeling...
Just what the spirit is that seizes the Radcliffe Idler twice a year and moves it to the good taste and good sense that characterize its current production is something that has not yet been determined. If it ever is defined, someone should pass the elixir to Harvard's own embattled dramatic groups with a hope for like physic...
...Idler has chosen for its fall offering a play that combines the virtues of novelty and freshness with those of genuinely comic writing and stage-ability. And realizing the limitations of its own theater and financial resources, the Radcliffe group has presented it with indisputable attractiveness...
Typical of the light Idler touch was the use of period music for this Jacobean comedy. An exceptionally competent quartet of string players, from the Harvard orchestra, under the guiding hand of arranger Maxwell Harvey '44, played snatches of suites by Purcell and Handel and a Lully concerto during the frequent changes of scene. Instead of the usual discordant effect of incidental music, last night's aided and abetted the harmonious tone of the staging...
Polish is what the Idler's effort lacked. That it was an amateur production could not be forgotten; but remembering that, the audience of "Have A Wife And Rule A Wife" was consistently delighted by music and foolery, wit and spectacle, and the general feeling that it was seeing an intelligent and tasteful effect by a well-directed college dramatic group--the first chance anyone has had in Cambridge this fall to indulge in such a feeling...