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Hours and hours of circling through streets of Cambridge in a sound truck yesterday, with a stentorian voice advertising the merits of "Jonah and the Whale", failed to bring the Dramatic Club a capacity audience at its premiere in the Peabody Theatre last night. But the inconsiderable number that did attend the performance seemed very appreciative...
Especially effective was the scene representing the prophet in the whale's belly. The huge mammal immediately proceeds to talk into his own stomach and in a pedantic tone of voice offers poor Jonah the benefit of innumerable intellectual tidbits...
Last night at the Peabody Playhouse the Harvard Dramatic Club threw a curiously shy Jonah at a strangely talkative whale. Following their admirable tradition they have given us another "American Premiere"--in this case the first performance in this country of a play that has already amused London audiences and will for the remaining evenings of this week amuse Boston audiences. For the audience last night seemed really to enjoy the way in which the Dramatic Club not only brought the Bible up to date but even added a few original touches to James Bridie's text...
...brief Prologue in which the Principal of a Girls' College, Miss Elishba Hupplefeather, admirably acted by Miss Agnes Love, raises with a couple of her charges the question of "Man and his Inspiration" and illustrates it by the story of Jonah and the Whale and the Eternal Father laughing gently at Jonah's anger...
...story is made strangely new by unexpected flashes of modern psychology analyzing Jonah's weakness and his strength, by the scene inside the belly of the whale, in which the whale out of consideration for Jonah's position has had nothing to drink, or the scene at the Hotel Baal in Nineveh, where the Lady chairman of the Semiramis Club, a sort of women's Rotary, a part ably acted by Miss Evelyn Stern, speaking of the post-war generation of young people with their fondness for mixed Greek wines and Ethiopian music, calls upon the Prophet from...