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...spring theatricals of the Hasty Pudding Club consist of a porody on Hamlet, and the play hears the additional title "The Sport, the Spook, and the Spinster." The very ingenious libretto has been written by G. B. Blake '93, and J. A. Wilder '93, while the words to the songs have received exceptionally good treatment at the hands of S. F. Batchelder '93. The music by P. L. Atherton '93. E. H. Abbott '93, and F. S. Converse '93 has almost all been written within the last month. It is varied and excellently adapted to the purpose in hand...
...performance given by the Hasty Pudding Club this spring is entitled "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or the Sport, the Spook and the Spinster." The words are by G. B. Blake '93, J. A. Wilder '93, and S. F. Batchelder '93; the music is by E. H. Abbott '93, P. L. Atherton '93, and F. S. Converse '93. The scenery is designed by J. H. Parker '93. R. B. Beals '94 is business manager; G. C. Lee Jr. '94. assistant business manager; and W. A. Dupee '94 property manager...
...Boston Bridge" are the opening verses of the number and are very happily conceived. "Jerusha Howe," spinster, is a good story, and stands in interesting contrast with "Roses and Cypress" in the last Advocate by the same author. In both stories the light coquetry and vanity of a pretty young girl brings on the death of her lover. This motive, always a fascinating one, is as well brought out in the hills up here in our bleak New England during the Revolution as it was in the warm sun of the Riviera. A bright poem entitled "Letters" follows this...
...attired in modest white, wore a coquettish flat straw hat with blue ribbons, and talked in a deep bass voice; the third was clothed in the sober garb of a middle-aged matron, but had refused to sacrifice his mustache, and the last represented a prim and dignified spinster, but was betrayed by the vigor and pathos of his profanity when a brother stepped on his skirt. The other members of the class wore long muslin gowns and high silk hats, on the front of which their class year, 1885, was inscribed, while the back was covered with Greek mottoes...
...real old Cambridge spinster...