Reed College - Griffin Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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'.':Z 3.'7'!7:rlrfrrrtrr'r-i-y v...n--rr.-.-;-F9og-w--c.a.. REED COLLEGE ADUQUAJ mood than Sprcdz'ng the News, but was presented with equal success. It is a miracle play of Christmas time, reHecting the belief in the unreal and mysterius which plays so great a part in the rural Irish community. Its very nature made it difficult to play, but the cast was equal to the task, and succeeded in aid- ing the audience to appreciate, in their presentation, that pecu- liar quality of the imagination which makes the Gaelic folklore appealing. The cast was: The Traveling Man ....................... Howard Barlow A XVoman ................................ Arlien Johnson A Child ................................ Pauline Alderman 6659 Man of Destiny Perhaps no one of the plays which the Drama Club has staged has been more admirably adapted to the materials at hand than The Alan of Destiny by Bernard Shaw, presented February eighteenth, 1914. The social room of the men,s dora mitory, where the play was given, with its dark oak paneling and dim staircase in the background, formd an excellent set- ting for the quaint old Italian in in which the action takes place. The incident upon which the play is based is supposed to be taken from the life of Napoleon during one Of his early Italian campains, but as is caracteristic 0f the work of this dramatist, the interest centers in the dialog rather than in the story itself. The manner in which the cast carried their parts shoed that they not only cant the spirit of the play but appre- ciated the skil and wit of the satire. :L;c Ln; :yH'uH. 3155.551. m:.g..1.u.;..ur.:. ICUIVII'I',V.'--rr .th-u-pqvh'v .w -r .- ..a.....- a 1915 WI The preface to the play, in which the author explains his own purpose and the historical setting of the action with car- acteristic ironical wit was converted into a prolog and red by Harry VVembridge in the guise of Shaw himself. This was an innovation which servd to create the proper atinosfere for the action. The cast: Napoleon ...... , ............................ Arthur Caylor The Lady .................................. Lois Williams The Lieutenant .............................. Edgar Piper Guiseppe ................................. Wynn Redman z'.fa.3:a'is::3-'rl$ 519735: musk: 11.352.

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REED COLLEGE ANNUAL and 0f the suicidal attempt of the flower seller wer wel brought out and fully appreciated: The cast was 2 Christopher XVellwyn, an artist .............. Howard Barlow Arm, his dazttc; .......................... Marian Allhands Ferrand, a w gabond .................... Alexander Lackey Timson, once a coachman. . . .k .................. Frank Scott Mrs. Meegan, a flozoe; ozrl .................. Verna Menefee Sir Thomas Hoxton .......................... Joyce Kelly Professor Calway. . . . . . . .- ................ Stephenson Smith Canon Bertley ........................... Charles Larrabee Vegan ...................................... Jay Seehrist Constable .............................. Donald Lancefield First Humbleman ......................... Matthew Riddle Second Humbleman ........................ Harold Golder A Loafer .................................. Lindsley Ross French Play The first act of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme with the original music of J. B. Lully, was presented before the col- lege in the reception room of the Arts Bilding on the evening of March nineteenth. The production was a faithful attempt to reproduce as nearly as possible the atmosfere of the original performance as it took place at Chambord in 1670. The participants wer all members of a loosely organized group of French students in the college usually cald the Acardanie, i ;r14 J 1 9 15 11171 and their work with the little play was partly for their own amusement, and partly to introduce the college to the Bow- geois Gentillzonmzrc as a preliminary to engaging interest in its production as a whole during the coming year. The springs of the plot ar not deep in the interior of the human hart, but involv, nevertheless, some essentially human caracteristics, so that Moliere,s inspired merriment fixes itself hartily upon all witnesses of his play. Monsieur Jourdain, the bourgeois with aristocratic notions and aspirations, is the center of a little scene, in which a ballet master and music master at brought with their disciples to apply as much polish as the bourgeois soul is capable of receiving. The singing lesson and the dancing lesson ar really funny, so that Moliere himself must hav laft whenever he took part in them. Lully, who was court musician to Louis XIV, and the pio- neer in French opera at Versailles, composed some of his best music for the songs of the piece, and the portion of the play produced contains several of the best ones of them. Dr. Cushing was principally activ in the production of the Bourgeois Gcntilhommc, tho all of the Academic wet in coop- eration. The costuming and staging wer under the direction of Lois Williams. The performers wer: Monsieur Jourdain, bourgeois ............... Edgar E. Piper JWaitrc dc Musiquc .......................... Mr. Cushing Maitre de Davzscr ....................... Charles Larrabee