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...graduates' performance of "The Alchemist," an Elizabethan comedy by Ben. Jonson, was given last evening in Brattle Hall by the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity...
Written by Jonson in 1610, the play satirizes the folly of the time, the search for the philosopher's stone. One Master Lovewit, frightened by the spread of the plague in London, departs for the country, leaving his house in care of his butler, Jeremy, better known because of his militant audacity as Face. Face fetches Subtle, a charlatan, into the house and represents him to all comers as one skilled in alchemy, able at will to call up the spirits of heaven and earth. Aided by Dol, Subtle's wife, the cunning sharpers play upon the credulity...
...cast for Ben Jonson's. "The Alchemist," which will be produced this year as the annual play of the Harvard chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, has been chosen as follows: Subtle, the Alchemist, C. Kempner '06 Face, the House-keeper, J. A. Greene '05 Dol Common, their colleague, P. E. Osgood '04 Dapper, a Lawyer's clerk, R. S. Wallace '04 Drugger, a Tobacco-man, D. C. Manning 1L. Lovewit, Master of the House, H. S. Deming '05 Sir Epicure Mammon, a Knight, W. G. Baer '04 Pertinax Surly, a Gamester, C. W. Randall '05 Tribulation Wholesome, a Pastor...
...Harvard chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will produce this year as its annual Elizabethan revival "The Alchemist," by Ben Jonson. Mr. A. S. Hills, Instructor in Elocution, will have charge of the production...
...Reading from Goldsmith, Jonson, Fielding, and Sterne. Mr. Copeland, Sever...