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...unique entertainment will be provided for the Summer School on Monday evening, July 31, when the Jitney Players camp in the Yard in front of Widener to give Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man." The stage truck forms the little theatre and the truck drivers, mechanics, wardrobe mistresses, and canvas men, serve as actors and actresses. For ten years this versatile troupe has been travelling every summer playing for audiences ranging from professors to cowboys...
...Remarkable for his non-silken turn of mind is Bushnell Cheney (son of Horace B.), who helped launch the Jitney Players in 1923 and who remains the power behind the scenes. Last week his troupe concluded a two weeks' stand at the Cherry Lane Playhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...
...Jitney Players. If you spend your summers in New England you may possibly have seen a troupe of mummers trundle into town of a hot summer's night, in motor trucks, unpack their scenery and their costumes and set up a show shop on a tennis court or a golf course. The Jitney Players have been touring in that fashion for six years...
Members of the University will be admitted at a reduced price of $.50 to the presentation of "A" Trip to Scarborough", a satiric comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, which will be presented as the only Boston performance of the Jitney Players in the ballroom of the Hotel Statler at 8.15 o'clock tonight...
...Jitney Players have toured the country during the last six summers with a stage constructed on their truck, giving performances at various summer resorts...