JUNIOR PROM WEEK

The Prom girl has come and gone. For a few short days she turned the College topsy-turvy: she looked in at the Commons and set the glasses tinkling; she disturbed the humdrum routine of classes, she made the freshmen conscious of their green hats. Fraternity houses shone in her honor; Hanover was a veritable spotless town when she came.

The festivities were a week early this year.—May 13-16, but no one has been able to discover that Prom was any simpler for the change. An outsider might have thought the juniors were holding an endurance test to see what couple could dance the most in four days and four nights, drink the most tea and coffee, and think of the most other things to see or do.

"Ta-Ta! Tango!" opened Junior Week. Only those who have followed Dartmouth dramatics for the past year and who know of the producing genius of W. F. Wanger '15, the manager of the Association, can understand the pretentiousness of this year's Prom Show. It was a musical comedy written by undergraduates. There were a hundred professional touches in the amazing setting of the play, the gorgeous costumes, the actual battle that took place in the Hall between trained armies. The plot of the play was nothing but a medium for the melodramatic gamut through which passed in review all the dramatic resources of the undergraduate players. Orientalism was rampant in a Persian background, and when politics made Persia too warm for comfort, the hundred odd actors in the play adjourned to Vienna for a brilliant cafe scene.

The concert by the musical clubs Thursday night was unusually good. A "The Dansant" in the Trophy Room added novelty to the customary round of teas and coffees, fraternity dances, band concerts, and ball games. Finally, the Junior Promenade was the "greatest Prom ever had".