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...action is a bit shaky at first. A drawn-out scene introducing a band of "shiftless and lazy" characters is relatively unappealing. But the entrance of the skeptical Bill Walker, played with comic gusto by Dan Beckhard, threatens to shake the charitable base of the conversion-oriented mission. Beckhard acts as a conductor, setting the other characters on fire. They ignite at his caustic brutalizing of the mission's sacharine Jenny Hill...
Harvest of Years (by DeWitt Bodeen; produced by Arthur J. Beckhard) is about a farm family named Bromark. It is rather like, if rather worse than, a good many other plays about farm families. Much happens in it, though little seems to. Margareta's man throws her over for her sister Mellie. Chris's girl passes him up for his nephew Jules. People drink; people squabble; babies are born; mothers die in childbirth. But for all that (says the author at the end) the sky doesn't fall in; actually, the family doesn't even fall...
...Love (by Edward Caulfield; produced by Arthur Beckhard & Victor Hugo-Vidal) concerns a lady scientist and a well-known actor (Lotus Robb and Walter Hampden) who meet through a marriage bureau, hide their identities, spend a trial fortnight in Connecticut...
Richard B. Adler '43, Waller R. Arnold '44, Elisha Atkins '42, George A. Ball '42, Bruce Barton, Jr. '43, William H. Batchelor '42, Walter J. Beckhard '42, Nicholas B. D. Biddle '44, Charles M. Bliss '43, Eugene L. Bondy '42, Leon H. Brachman...
...play could not be spoiled by any cast which so much as learned the lines. With so competent a cast (with the one exception) as Manager Beckhard has assembled the drama is well worth seeing--especially since students who present their bursar's card will be given a discount on the admission price...