Word: legging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arthur Szathmary '37 will play the part of the Welsh clergyman, John Williams, while Miss Miriam Hurwitt will act the role of his wife, Minnie. A genuine wooden peg leg will form part of Miss Hurwitt's costume. Miss Lois Hall, dressed in girlish white, will appear as Gladys, the refined young evil spirit of the piece...
There is a great to do about a leg in the "Comedy of Good and Evil" at Brattle Hall tonight. Miriam Hurwitt, who gets a new leg, is greatly perturbed when it flies up unceremoniously into the faces of the visitors to her humble dwelling. And perturbation is scarcely a fitting word for the reactions of the unfortunate visitors...
...next scene, the wooden leg of pious but ignorant Minnie has been replaced by real, flesh and blood leg through the intercession of the lovely little devil. The leg, through sometimes a perfectly obedient leg, is under the control of some mysterious power...
...other members of the cast are uproarious as the Welsh villagers, eager to learn about the miracle. The proof is final when Mrs. Resurrection Jones. who broke up her own funeral by tapping at her con lid, feels the leg and learns to her own disappointment that it's not one of those china things...
There will doubtless be opposition to this. Miss Hurwitt and Stephen Greene both handle difficult roles exceedingly well. The fact that Miss Hurwitt sustained her dislect throughout the piece and handled her leg with consummate skill counted heavily in her favor, but Miss Hall dominated the production...