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...renaissance of the travelling theatre has come, come with the assistance of the automobile, and the foster parents of the travelling theatre the Jitney Players, enter upon their third season. The organization is peculiarly interesting to Harvard men because the originator. Bushnell Cheney, Yale '21, last summer enlisted the aid of a number of Harvard graduates and undergraduates. This summer the Jitney Players again number among their company several graduates of the University...
...Ford trucks and a touring car make up the caravan which carries actors, stage hands, business staff, stage scenery, and all the equipment of the Jitney Players. In the main truck, which is the stage when unfolded and set up, are the hangings, which variously arranged and lighted, serve for all the productions. There are also in this truck the costumes, the three tents which serve for dressing rooms and sleeping quarters, 500 feet of canvas fence which surrounds the audience during the performance, all the electrical equipment, properties, and a variety of miscellaneous articles...
...smaller truck carries the personal baggage of the troupe, one suitcase only per person being allowed, army cots, blanket rolls, and the Delco engine. When the Jitney Players arrive on location, the stage manager selects the site for placing the truck. In a few minutes the big car is unloaded, and the unfolding process which is to end in a complete stage gets under way. The picture above shows the stage during the course of the play...
Thus far the Jitney Players have produced one-act plays only. Whether they will give longer productions has not been determined. But their success in short works has been unequivocal. A group of three plays generally makes a bill, with the play weightiest in dramatic content in the middle, and a comedy...
Although Bushnell Cheney, a Yale man, is owner and Director in whose hands the project has taken shape, many Harvard men, members of the Dramatic Club and, most of them, affiliated with the late 47 Workshop, have been intimately connected with the Jitney Players. Last summer there were seven graduates and undergraduates of the University in the company, with three Yale...