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Alexander Woollcott: "It is a sleazy, disorderly and generally negligible piece, but its central role is a vivid and unusual...
...frame--a sort of fire-horse, always on the job. To Carson, the heroine, goes the genuine-orchid-shower-bouquet for being quite the demurest piece of work that the Hasty Pudding Ladies' Auxiliary has presented since Vinton Freedley shaved particularly close in order to do justice to the role of Princess of Loravia. J. M. Brown '23 was consistently effective and self-effacing--the only actor in the cast. Rumor hath it that he is a subject of English 47 and therefore a ringer; if it is so, let there be the clanging of more ringers like...
...Fosdick mentioned the pitiful role our much-vaunted civilization has played in Christianizing the Far East. "We did not really recognize Japan as an equal," he said, "until she had slain her thousands in the Russo-Japanese War." Bringing matters a little nearer home, he mentioned the fact that Channing Pollock, writer of "The Fool" had declared that it took him three years to get the play accepted because the producers did not believe that the "public cared for that sort of thing...
...helpful. But in order to combat this, the author has busied himself more with the earlier denouements and complications, and allowed the audience to guess the final outcome. For example, before the play was half over, it was not a difficult matter to determine which half of the dual-role would win the hero, but it was not easy to accept all of the various ways in which the playwright jammed the situations into plausibility...
...Seymour '17 has had entire charge of coaching the production and picking the casts, as he has done for the past few seasons. The title role in "Beranger" will be taken by John Collier '24, who will be supported by Conrad Salinger '23 as Talleyrand. Miss Dorothy Googins will take the leading female role...