Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether it be taken as a "key" play and a penetrating satire of the contemporary stage, or whether it be viewed as good old-fashioned rough-house, the Harvard Dramatic Club's revised version of Sheridan's "The Critic," which opened last night for a three-day run at the Peabody Playhouse, provides healthy entertainment. In the original Sheridan told his contemporaries that entertaining was better than preaching, and many will see in this revival a revival of that warning directed at present-day dramatist. Others will see merely the H.D.C. gone slightly berserk...
...audience is rewarded, however, for in the nonsensical play-within-a-play which takes up the remaining two acts there is genuine homer. This is supplied by deft touches, ranging from Eleanore Bell's exclamation, "Oh, Ecthtathy of blithe!" through the able clowning of Agnes Love to the finale in which Eleasnor Spencer and Jonas N. Mulcloud of white balloons to the strains of "I Married an Angel...
...Dramatic Club. The few lines that call for acting, such as Miss Spencer's "mad Ophelia" scene, are read by women, while the men in the cast are uniformly poor, always excepting Mr. Sever and possibly Jervis B. McMechan '42. Moreover the man responsible for the revision of the play, as well as its direction and staging, is Jack Munro, a 28-year-old Canadian actor and author who boasts "a crimson past but no connection with Harvard." In spite of this outside assistance, or quite possibly because of it, "The Critic" may be recommended as refreshing entertainment...
...usual the Christmas dance will be preceded by a House play this year written by Robert W. Anderson '39, Tickets will be $2 a couple and $1.50 stag...
...plot of the play was somewhat confused, but it seemed to hold t he interest of the audience, which practically filled the spacious dining room. Sir Walter Blankhound was the little devil of the play. Many of his wives, etc., did not come from official sources, yet he was looking for still more. His fortunes came to an end and in that capacity put the official stamp of approval on several marriages...