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...like the book. I like the music. I think it will be a great show" was the quiet, confident statement of Arthur Hurley, director of the Hasty Pudding's "Come Across". Having turned men into women for fourteen years as coach of the "Lamb's Gambols" in New York, he is not worried about the crucial part of the production up here. His trick is to show the players' femininity by costume and a few gestures with the hips and hands rather than by a fakey voice...
...Hurley, brother of the former Postmaster and present State Treasuer, William K. Hurley, works the principals in the pudding hard each afternoon, because talent scouts for the movies and stage are coming up to watch the play. Aroused by the polished entertainment of last year's "The Lid's Off"' they will be looking for men like John Davis Lodge, male load in the 1926 production and currently in Hollywood. One player has already been offered screen tests, while tunes such as "Someday" and "Come Across" are often heard in night clubs and radio programs...
Asserting that he intends to uphold the oath of office no matter how unpleasant the consequences, Hurley explained his plan of administration. "I realize that no man can do this job alone," he stated. Therefore he has surrounded himself with the best and most available men for his advisory executive staff. Their assistance was indispensable in helping him plan the new state budget which definitely puts "Massachusetts on the pay as you go policy...
...Hurley has not forgotten the state electing machines, but his memory augurs them no good. Citing the impossibility of a candidate to break through the powerful machine which held Springfield in its grip during the last election, he attacked the pre-primary elections as an evil to be removed. All candidates should be allowed to be on the ballot election day. Among the other reforms which he has advocated is the bi-annual session of the legislature...
...Hurley closed the brief interview by praising the new School of Public Administration...