Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Craig Gilbert '47, William Scudder '48, and Courtney Crandall '46 have come up with the script, lyrics, and music for a play about life in a small American town at the turn of the century. It became the theatrical committee's choice after a full week of deliberation, theatrical president W. Todd Parsons '48 said last night...
With the exception of a few war years, the Pudding has been producing theatricals since 1844. Parsons, who handled the business arrangements last year, will be manager of the play and his assistants will be vice-president David S. Biddle '49, stage manager Peter V. Poor '46, and publicity director John Munroe...
...University band may play for President Truman Sunday...
...Missouri Waltz' is not among the tunes the band intends to play," Howard said. "We understand that the President doesn't like the song...
Altogether the English setting seems to be a mistake. Aside from the injection of a few Anglicisms and British accents, the play is more American than anything else. The focal point of the second act, a supposedly immoral letter, does not seem so terribly bad, and the author's obvious switch to English codes to support the validity of his characters' moral motivations, is a transparent device. Nor can the portrayels of intense emotion be palmed off as peculiarly English; they are poorly directed, and evoke very little. Sometimes they are ludicrous, and that adds to the evening's total...