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Tonight's performance of "Proserpina" at the Hasty Pudding club house will be Graduates' Night. The first public performance in Cambridge will be tomorrow night at the same place...
...Hasty Pudding has plainly been shaking itself for its theatricals this season. Of late years it has confined itself to producing the burlesquiest of burlesques, with now and then a touch or two of the Hoyt Drama; in "Proserpina" it now at last gives us something which can very fairly be called an operetta, an operette in the Offenbach vein. And it hardly need be said that, compared with what burlesque has grown to in our day, anything approaching Offenbach operabouffe has a strong smack of the "legitimate." We rather wonder that this sort of thing has not occurred...
...simplest and most perspicuous rhythms, or the singers cannot learn it. This is really the most serious handicap of all: to forego all rhythms except those of the march, the galop or the waltz. And still the young composer has written a great deal of really charming music in "Proserpina," showing no little melodic inventiveness and even succeeding in giving some numbers a characteristic coloring by means as simple as they are effective, and made the best of it as only a man of decided talent and considerable musical knowledge could have done...
MUSICAL selections from "Proserpina," the '95 Hasty Pudding Club Play, at Briggs and Briggs, Music Store, 1274 Massachusetts avenue, opp. College Library...
Performances of "Proserpina" will be given in Copley Hall, Boston this evening and on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. Thursday night the play will be given at the clubhouse in Cambridge for past and present members of the club. Public performances will be given at the club house on Friday and Saturday evenings...