PLAYERS VISIT WORCESTER AND NORTHAMPTON

"Hush," the musical comedy presented at Carnival time, was very enthusiastically received on its tour to Worcester and Northampton. After its original production at Carnival, when the show met with very indifferent success, the lines have been entirely rewritten and many changes made, in the subplots. The result was a play which was described by Professor Dodd of Clark University as "the most refreshing musical comedy I have seen in several years." The music, written by H. A. Sullivan '23, was especially well received.

Considerable difficulty was experienced with the production at Worcester where the orchestra of the theatre refused to allow The Players' orchestra to play, basing their action on the rule of their union forbidding all outsiders to appear in the pit of any Worcester theatre. After considerable preliminary controversy, in the course of which The Players offered the musicians their evening's salary whether they played or not, the theatre management permitted the student orchestra to play. This, however, precipitated a sympathetic strike of the stage hands so that The Players were forced to take their own scene-shifters. No difficulty was experienced at the theatre the night of the play, police being on hand to prevent any disorder.