Word: plays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...book and lyrics are by H. W. H. Powel, Jr., '09 and W. G. Wendell '09, and the music is by J. A. Warner '09. Mr. Eugene B. Sanger has charge of the production of the play...
...graduates' night performance was given last Saturday evening. "The Builders of Babylon" presents in a very original setting a play which, from its large number of excellent performers, takes rank among the very best the club has yet produced...
...this year's play are four stars: Wendell, Harrison, Blagden, and Hutchinson. Nor does any praise of them detract from the excellent work of Middle-mass, Butler, Loring, Roelker, Powel, and Gardner. The scenery was the best the club has had in some years, likewise the costumes. Mr. Sanger's dancing received the applause it deserved. The music provided several songs of exceptional quality, and in the quartette at the end of the second act the composer did not go beyond his powers. The book, though not productive of any unusual situations, was amusing and clever. As to the topical...
Lanigan's account of the Yale football game, though a difficult thing well done, is, we suggest, a little out of place in a musical play. Gardner and Loring should speak their songs. We wish that the part taken by Hutchinson could be lengthened; it is not often that the Hasty Pudding Club has a performer who not only makes up well as a girl, but has also the ability to suit acting to looks...
...conclusion we mention as the best things in the play, "Egypt," the love-song by Harrison, "It Pays to Advertise," and the workmen's chorus at the opening of the second...