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...Judith and Holofernes,* the music by Eugene Goossens, the text by Novelist Enoch Arnold Bennett, had its world première at London's Covent Garden (TIME, July 8). Last week Judith was given its first U. S. performance by the enterprising Philadelphia Grand Opera Company. Soprano Bianca Saroya was satisfactorily bloodthirsty as Judith. Russian Basso Ivan Steschenko sang sonorously as Holofernes but failed to make intelligible the pompous passages done by Novelist Bennett in the Biblical idiom. British Composer Goossens conducted his music which, if lacking in originality, at least proved him a skilled and energetic workman...
...though miscast, lives down by capable work one of these curtain speeches about "illness. . .kind consented. . .learned the part overnight" that are such a ball-and-chain on amateurism, and which were burlesqued out of sight by Beatrice Herford in "Cock Robin". Minder Sewall as Mimi, Allegra Mackay as Bianca, and Louise Piper as Hilda lift the play, but nothing like the way Ruth Bond Hill does, as Lona who spends the night before Anatol's nuptials to another chez Anatol...
Mary Caperton takes the role of Bianca, the daughter of Baptista. She is chairman of the Dramatic Committee and has done a great deal of work in staging Radcliffe productions. Charles Leatherbee, plays Baptista, A. S. Gerstein, '30, takes the part of Hortensio, Margaret Effinger plays Curtis, and Charles Hicks ocC. Biondello. All of these have been in "The Orange Comedy," Miss Effinger playing the part of the Queen. Miss Adele Wood who has played in "The Straw" given by the Radcliffe Idler Club and the freshman play, will act as Tranio. D. W. Moreland '28, is Vincentio...
...Paul Sherbert '30. Baptista, Charles Leatherbee '29 Vincentio, D. W. Moreland '28 Lucentio, H. W. B. Donegan E.T.S. Petruchio, K. A. Perry '28 Hortensio, A. S. Gerstein '30 Tranio, Adele Wood Biondelo, Charles Hicks ocC. Grumio, G. B. Bingham '28 A Pedant, G. W. Harrington '27 Katharina Frances Small Bianca, Mary Caperton Widow, Corlies Wilber Curtis, Margaret Effinger Specialty Dancers, Sara Sherburne Ogden Goelet '29 Servants, Margaret Child Judy Brown Lydia Edwards Tailor, Abbott Peterson '30 Haberdasher, Paul Sherbert '30 Cook, Lambert Ennis '28 Butler, Richard Bennett...
...supporting positions G. B. Bingham '28, who had the chief part in "Brown of Harvard" last spring, and "The Orange Comedy", takes the role of Grumio while Miss Mary Carpenter, Radcliffe '27, plays Bianca, the daughter of Baptista. She is secretary of the Idler Club and has done a great deal of work in staging the Radcliffe productions...