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...Lost Sheep. Rev. William Wampus, awaiting the completion of a new parish house, moves with his wife (Marie Cecilia ["Cissie"] Loftus) and three comely daughters to a recently abandoned bordello in Higher Hempstead, Middlesex, England. So that the play's double meanings will not elude even the dullest playgoer, Mrs. Wampus continually addresses her daughters as "her girls," and the daughters further the effect by referring to her as "madame." Complications set in as soon as the young men of the neighborhood, believing that nothing more untoward has occurred than a change of management, begin calling on the telephone...
...University Theatre in cooperation with the Crimson is offering a prize of ten dollars for the best review of "Dynamite" which will open Sunday, February 16. All members of the University are eligible, and the best contribution will be printed in the Crimson Playgoer column. The full particulars of the contest will be found on page four of today's paper...
...store organization which is overtaking the movies nowadays is that if you miss a picture at one theater it is almost certain to turn up sooner or later at another. At the Central Square this week are two such attractions. "The Virginian," which has been reviewed before in the Playgoer columns, and "Honky Tonk...
...playing an infallible system which calls for sprigs of vaudeville and bouquets of decoration, find it profitable to keep at least two musical shows going at once. No sooner had their Pleasure Bound closed than they prepared Broadway Nights to companion their A Night in Venice. If a blindfolded playgoer were ushered into one, then permitted to look, he might easily mistake it for the other...
...figures appearing in stained glass colors, this 32-year-old idyll by Stephen Phillips may have a place in dramatic history. However, its lack of semblance to life makes its revival now by so fine an actress as Jane Cowl a little difficult to understand. To interest the modern playgoer in the doom of these two familiar poetic figures, a little more of Dante's fire is needed...