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Already famous after four seasons upon the broad highway, the organization conceived by Bushnell Cheney, Yale '21, and R. S. Andrich '25, a former president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, has won a permanent place in the theatrical world. Eight principals of the troupe have been Harvard men. Sixteen players in all tour with the Jitney company; seven of them are professional actresses...
...opened the season at Noroton, Connecticut, on June 22 with Jezebel' and 'Desdemona', two special Ford trucks 'Vivian', a Ford touring car, 'Nemo', a Dodge of questionable antecedents, and Mr. Cheney's Renault runabout, 'Pippett', as our means of transportation. We were kept busy attending to these cars throughout our 11 weeks' hour...
...renaissance of the travelling theatre is due to the invention of the automobile. Once that invention was an assured fact, the time was bound to come when groups of actors would take to the road again, offering theatrical wares un- der desirable conditions of time and place. However, Bushnell Cheney was the first to have the foresight, the initiative, and the mechanical gifts to design the truck with its equipment, and to organize the actors and put them on the road...
...Jitney Players were first organized in 1923, and since then have toured regularly from Connecticut to Maine and back to New York playing wherever an audience had been located by R. C. Burrell '24, their advance agent. They use a collapsible stage, designed by Mr. Cheney, the owner of the company. This stage is fitted on a specially constructed Ford chassis, and can be unfolded quickly at each stopping place. A very elaborate lighting plant is built on another truck...
...Adolf, Duke of Skane, Crown Prince of Sweden?" ¶ Animated conversation ensued. Five minutes later Mrs. Coolidge in similar fashion received Her Royal Highness Princess Louise. Animated conversation ensued. Twenty minutes later the royal callers retired to the Swedish Legation. They had hardly arrived there when Colonel Sherwood A. Cheney, military aide to the President, followed them, to return the Crown Prince's call...