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While the patients sang Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here, State Education Inspector Albert A. Buchholz served the doctor with a summons to appear before the medical grievance committee of the State Department of Education. The charges: 1) operating a dispensary and clinic without a permit; 2) "falsely, fraudulently, deceitfully and unlawfully" allowing unlicensed persons to practice medicine in the clinic; 3) violating State law by advertising unethically in magazines...
...amateur theatre too often prevent such revivals, for box-office returns are founded on "names," and most of the fore-runners of the modern drama are unknown outside classrooms. It is a pleasure, then, to see the current production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, Nikolai Gogol's "The Inspector General." This semi-realistic social comedy, first produced in 1936, influenced all the later Russian playwrights and also those of Germany, Norway, and England late in the 19th century. With acute local perception and yet a vast universality of theme Gogol exposes the corruption and bribery that pervaded the local government...
...topic is more susceptible to the satirical pen than that of politicians and petty graft. Actual proof of this statement is being presented this week by the Harvard Dramatic Club at Brattle Hall. The play is the Russian comedy, "Inspector General" by Nicolai Gogol. A simple story of mistaken identity--one of the most satisfactory of comic devices--provides the basis for two hours of continual merriment. In a small city of Tsarist Russia the corrupt officials are visited by an Imperial inspector with highly unorthodox ideas of reform. He spends his time accepting bribes and making promises, attempting...
With only a week remaining before the curtain goes up on its 65th production. "The Inspector General," the HDC cast is intensively rehearsing amidst the props of the Big Tree Swimming Pool for their four night stand next Wednesday through Saturday, and a subsequent tour of Army camps...
This satirical farce uncovers governmental corruption in a rollicking series of scenes. Bob Keahey '45, mistaken for the true Inspector-general who is to investigate municipal inefficiency, arrives in a small Russian town, and after being wined and dined by the officials, proceeds on an attempted seduction of the mayor's wife, Jackie Proctor, and ends up mistakenly engaged to his daughter, Edie Bronson...