Word: playing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...final cast for the Hasty Pudding annual show has been selected and complete arrangements made for the Cambridge and Boston performances. The play chosen for this year's production is "Barnum Was Right," a play in a prologue and two acts, written by S. P. Sears '17 and R. E. Sherwood '18. The stage management is handling a big scenic project with good results. The scene of the prologue is laid on Mt. Olympus, that of the first act in a movie studio, and the second act in a San Francisco cabaret. The cast for the play is as follows...
...other plays is "The Reunion," by Eleanor Hinkley. This play has an unusual appeal to those interested in the aspirations of youth; yet it concerns old age. While in no sense a play of a social problem, it suggests some very practical improvements which might take place in our charitable institutions. Ideals are shattered, yet faith proves stronger than failure...
...disappointment which may not be lightly borne to learn of Captain Morgan's inability to play against Yale. It is essentially true that Harvard teams have never been one-man teams, and the loss of one player may not break the morale of the whole. Yet the loss to any team however strong of a player so remarkable is a serious impairment of its strength. On the game Saturday depends the victorious conclusion of the whole season of play. The team cannot well afford to present against Yale's fast and aggressive team anything less than its full power...
...play concerns a woman of noble rank who is jilted by her lover, the Duo de Bligny, and in a reaction of shame and anger becomes engaged to a virtuous and prosperous Ironmaster who is ardently in love with her. The rest of the play, to quote the words of the program, is taken up with the wife's "gradual realization of her husband's many good qualities." There is, of course, an inevitable heavy father, not to mention a mother, a Marquise of correspondingly ponderable emotions. More witty by play is furnished by a pair of comic married lovers...
Trials for the Dramatic Club orchestra will be held today between 2 and 5 o'clock. Candidates are to report at this time with an instrument to J. M. Parmelee '19, in Claverly 4. The orchestra selected will play entre act music for the performances of the Dramatic Club's spring production, on April 3, 4, and 5. This offers a good opportunity to play in a large theatre orchestra, and at least one man retained will be taken into the club. Any member of the University is eligible...