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...Jonson was the best selling author last night as far as House Christmas plays were concerned. Eliot presented his "The Silent Woman" and Leverett "The Silent Woman" and Leverett "The Alchemist." Kirkland performed a modern revue containing a variety of skits...
...Silent Woman" will be the Elephant offering. Students and faculty members will both take on the acting chores in Jonson's drama. It will follow the House Yale dinner next Wednesday...
Bawdy 17th century drama, the usual fare at annual House Christmas celebrations, will be only a minor item on the menu of holiday festivities this year. Only Eliot and Leverett will produce the type of play Ben Jonson made famous...
...only other Jonson comedy will be given by Leverett, also on next Wednesday. The Bunnie Hutch plans a production of "The Alchemist." Lowell House will present Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" on the same night...
Last week The Alchemist was given a lively airing-as the first bill in the New York City Center's spring theater program. Set smack in Jonson's lusty London, the play tells of three high-flying cheats, one of whom professes to be an alchemist, and of the brisk trade they drive. Dupes and sharpers alike are finally discomfited; but first the alchemist is sought out by every kind and condition of hopeful, from a modest lawyer's clerk who has an itch to gamble to the City knight, Sir Epicure Mammon, with his sumptuous...