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Last week the Princeton University Triangle Club took its 44th annual musi-comedy to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House before the usual holiday swing through the country. Those who had charge of this year's production. It's The Valet, appeared to have done a less sprightly job than many of their predecessors. It's The Valet is not very funny...
...Maritza is the pretty daughter of a wealthy businessman who admires the count but despises his calling. When a fat U. S. widow (Mary Boland) buys the von Degenthal castle at an auction and plans to modernize it into an apartment hotel with the count for manager and his valet (Charles Ruggles) for maitre d'hotel, the inevitable alliance between Marshall and Maritza develops without further impediment. Typical shot: Maritza peeping out behind a curtain while Marshall superciliously accepts a stogie from her father...
...body and nerve. "Jimmy" Walker boarded the Europe-bound S. S. Conte Grande, locked himself away. Betty Compton, his friend, also sailed, with her mother. Aboard were newshawks, crossing to return on the new Italian liner Conte di Savoia. Miss Compton & mother visited the Walker suite. The Walker valet. Greenhouse, deckwalked the Compton dog. Mr. Walker finally emerged from his cabin, gave newshawks an ancient wisecrack about his whiskers growing so long he must shave or buy a fiddle, and denied that he was about to return a visit to the Maharajah of Mysore...
...years the Dramatic Club has been invited to cast the male roles of the production. There are seven leading male parts in this year's production: Gaev, age 45; Trofimov, a perpetual student; Lophin, age 38; Epihodov, an old man; Semyonov, a landowner, the comedy part; Firs, the old valet, age 87; and Yaska, a young valet. Minor roles to be filled are those of a vagrant, a station master, and a post office clerk...
...occurred: 15 Balinese, tipsy on mild wine and carrying a cremation tower, ran over him and his camera. His picture, the leisurely record of a six-month visit, is beautifully photographed and has the warm, informal authenticity that most travelogs lack. Good shot: a Balinese youth (Trego's valet, who refused to leave Bali for any salary) smiling slowly as he watches a dance...