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This year's Hasty Pudding show is to be an unusual mystery play. So strange is the plot that the management refuses to divulge more than a few details about the intricate surprises of the story. They have announced that the composers of the music are L. J. Abbott '24, M. H. Harris '24 and Theodore Pearson '25, and that the authors of the lyrics are L. J. Abbott '24, W. L. White '24 and B. McK. Henry '24, but very little more has been released for fear of spoiling the effect when the play is at last performed...
...product of diligent study on the part of the co-authors in the character of the modern actress. The British Museum, on the other hand, has yielded the secrets of the unusual life and tragic death of Don John, Spanish Viceroy of California about 1640. The main plot, which incidentally contains numerous other plots, is the result of the meeting between these two. The complications become so frequent that the title, "Who's Who," is said to be a confession of the inability of the authors themselves to unravel the plot...
...story which Wagner used for his Tristan is a story which has woven its spell around many another artist in tone or words. Poets without number have used it. It is perhaps the parent of the triangle-play; the plot is one which, if new, might cause as great a stir as that of Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings (see Page 16). For Queen Isolde has been given in marriage to King Mark; yet after a sip of a magic and non-Volstead potion she falls into the arms of Knight Tristan...
...learn from the Century Company that "The Gentleman in Pajamas," a novel by Charles Neville Buck, to be published by them this month, has for plot the following situation: A burglar, instead of gathering up availables and leaving the scene of his crime at the earliest convenient moment, settles down to live with his victim while he forces him to liquidate his estate and turn over his assets as fast as they become easily negotiable to the man who greeted him one midnight with: "All I want is all you have." The burglar meets servants, secretary, friends of his victim...
...almost seems foolish to outline the plot of such a well-known play, but some people forget easily, and some may have been touring Europe when this "Cohan show" came to Boston. The story centers about John Paul Bart, who is in the employ of Anton Huber, a tailor. Like all human beings and Horatio Alger heroes, he cherishes fond hopes of becoming a great man, and to further himself intellectually commits to memory many phrases of an unpublished work by Dr. Gustavus Sonntag, the finance of Mr. Huber's daughter, Tanya. Finally opportunity knocks at his door...