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...fourth public performance of "The Fair Maid of the West" the thirteenth annual revival of an Elizabethan play by the Harvard Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, will be given in Players' Hall, West Newton, this evening at 8 o'clock...
...third public performance of "The Fair Maid of the West," the thirteenth annual revival presented by the Harvard chapter of the Deita Upsilon Fraternity, will be given this evening at 8' o'clock in Jordan Hall, Boston...
This year's Delta Upsilon play is a happy choice as an Elizabethan revival; for few plays of that famous time show so vividly the time itself, as Thomas Heywood's "Fair Maid of the West." Through it blows vigorously the Elizabethan air: the breeze and braggadocio of the coast town and its tavern (a majority of the best scenes, and the real "home-scenes" of the play, are in taverns), and of the lovable, boyish soldier of fortune, free of rapier and purse; the praise of courage and the ridicule of cowards; the passion for fighting against Spain...
Stronger than all--perhaps because including all--is the true and honest wholesomeness of the play. A keen judge has called Heywood an Elizabethan ancestor of Col. Newcome; and the spirit of the courteous and well-bred qualities is strong and full in "The Fair Maid of the West." The play is thus genuinely a revival, for it is given practically intact. So invigorating is the courageous, open-air climate that even the most arrant coward is shamed out of his cowardice into as energetic courage; the returning Captain Goodlack, who is much tempted to gainful villany, is too conscious...
...second public performance of "The Fair Maid of the West," the thirteenth annual revival presented by the Harvard chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity will be given this evening at 8 o'clock in Brattle Hall. There will be informal dancing after the play until 1 o'clock...