Word: distaffina
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...from a stage play that had been produced in Boston’s Tremont Theatre and created Bombastes Furioso, a “tragicomic opera.” The Pudding’s all-male company cast Augustus F. Hinchman, Class of 1845, in the coveted drag role of Distaffina. The burlesque was staged on December 13, 1844, in Hollis 11 before an audience of Hasty Pudding members...
...play went off splendidly. Distaffina wore a low neck and short sleeves, and on her introducing a fancy dance, the applause almost shook old Hollis down,” he said. “Another member of the Club lived in the rooms across the entry, and there we had the pudding after the play, the actors kept on their dresses and poor Distaffina was nearly bothered to death by her admirers...
Today, the Pudding show has grown to such proportions that Distaffina and the Hollis 11 crew would hardly recognize it. According to publicity manager Gloria R. Beck '85, this year's production has an overall budget of around $180,000, with $22,000 going to costume production and $9000 going to construction of the set. The Theatricals is nonprofit, with the revenue from each show paying the costs of production. This year, however, some of the money made from the show will be set aside to help renovate the Hasty Pudding Theater, which needs a new roof and seats...
...show's tradition goes back to 1844, when the venerable Hasty pudding club-founded in 1795, realized that it had to cast a man in the role of Distaffina in its first play, Bombastes Furioso because there were, of course, no female members...
...play went off splendidly--Distaffina more a low neck and short sleeves, and on her introducing a fancy dance, the applause almost shook old Hollis down. Another member of the Club lived in the rooms across the entry, and there we had the pudding after the play, the actors kept on their dresses and poor Distaffina was nearly bothered to death by her admirers...