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...play is bound to be a success, and the music especially popular. F. E. Barry '97, the composer, was presented with a gold and ivory tipped baton by the principals and members of the chorus, and at the close of the first act both Barry and Stephens the librettist, were loudly cheered...
...librettist has turned out a book very much on the old Meihac & Halevy lines, taking mythological dramatis personae and the gist of an old myth, and burlesquing the whole by the introduction of all sorts of modern matter. And in this he has shown a very keen eye for caricature. Take, for instance, his fusion of the Greek Pluto with the modern Devil, of Hades with Hell, and then further burlesquing the composite by making Hell a sort of modern hotel, into which no sinless person can obtain admission; this is excellent burlesque. His working-out of this comic donnee...