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...Beggar's Opera'" (it will be entitled "Beggar's Holiday" during the New York run), the play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...
Included in the cast in Professor William Y. Elliott, who will play the part of Lockit, the Jailor, while other parts in the play will be portrayed as follows: Mr. Peachum by Alan J .Dimond '37; Lucy Lockit by Ralph Lazzaro '36; Captain Macheat by John Gochenour '36; Polly by Courtland Canby '36; Mrs. Peachum by Peter L. Scott '36; The Beggar by Leonard Hammer '38; Filch by Robert C. Cochrane, Jr. '38; Dianna Trapes by Robert E. Rogers '38; and William L. Batt '38 will play the part of "The Player...
...Duke of Bolton, who in 1751 married the famed Lavinia Fenton, original "Polly Peachum" of The Beggars' Opera...
...Weber, onetime burlesque ventriloquist who introduced "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" in this season's Americana, finds himself thoroughly at home among paupers of an earlier period. He is Jonathan Peachum, director general of London's beggars, who finally persuades Sheriff Brown to hang his good friend Captain Macheath because the erring captain has won the heart of Jonathan's daughter Polly. Robert Chisholm (Sweet Adeline) plays Macheath with grace, not in the costume of an 18th Century highwayman but with the spats and swordcane of a Victorian confidence man. Polly is Steffi Duna...
...swamps of Missolonghi. The present bio-novel might be regarded as a belated contribution to the centenary, atoning for its tardiness by its fervor. But such is hardly the case. The author of The Chaste Diana (Lavinia Fenton, later the Duchess of Bolton, who took the part of Polly Peachum in the original production of the Beggars' Opera) and The Divine Lady (Lady Hamilton), is a person who discerns the folly of conceiving a colorful biography and embroidering it to the current taste in refined wantonness, when History's closet affords the skeletons of many such- authentic shades...