Word: wellesley
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Pi Eta Club gives a performance of "Peter Called Prince", its fifty-ninth annual production at Wellesley a week from tonight it will bring back memories of the "Belles of Bellesley", which the club presented 25 years ago at the Wellesley Town Hall...
That year's show was heralded by the CRIMSON on April 11, as "with one possible exception, the best which the society has given". It contained several travesties of Wellesley traditions and customs, particularly a take-ff on the Wellesley crew which according to a Boston paper of that date "brought forth shouts of applause" from the audience. Officially named on the elaborate program as "A Comic Opera in Two Acts" the show made so great a hit that the "Herald" on the following day came out with the statement that "seldom has the Wellesley world roused itself to keener...
...past and present members of the club. Following "Graduates' Night", as it is called, three public performances will be given at the Pi Eta Theatre on January 13, 16, and 20. In addition the club will give two presentations at Whitney Hall, Brookline, on January 15, at Alumnae Hall, Wellesley, on January 17, and at players Hall, West Newton, on January...
...trip to Wellesley is of interest because this is the first time in 25 years that the show has been given there. In 1999 the club gave a performance of a production called "The Belles of Wellesley", which apparently displeased the girls by its cleverness in taking off themselves. At any rate since that date no performance has been given within the precincts of Wellesley until this year...
After the preliminary matches, Wellesley and Yale faced each other in the finals, for the championship. Both teams, having already tasted the fruits of cross-word victory, altogether outdid themselves in this contest. Apparently they finished in a dead heat, but the sharp-eyed judges discovered that Wellesley had made a mistake in the last syllable of the last words, so Yale was conceded the victory...