1923 WINTER CARNIVAL IS GRAND AND GLORIOUS

"Bigger and better than ever before"—this is the trite but literally true label which needs must be stamped on the 1923 Winter Carnival. Over six hundred girls, the pick of the east and west, weather as satisfactory as though made to order, and the directive genius of the Outing Club spell the reasons-why of the success of Hanover's biggest party.

After the sorting out process at the arrival of the special trains and after the girls were installed in the various fraternity houses and Middle Mass, tea dances held sway until the official opening of the Carnival at 7 Thursday night. Starting from the great ice column on the Commons corner, which looked like a pillar of fire at night and like delicate blue marble in the daytime, the Carnival crowd, carrying torches marched amid fireworks out to faculty pond for skating and tobogganing. A great wooden toboggan slide with its homestretch across faculty pond had been erected. The high pitched "yips" of excited girls could be heard for blocks as the toboggans would shoot at a forty mile an hour gait across the pond. Returning to town for a lightning like change to evening clothes about 11, Carnival trotters made their way to group fraternity dances which lasted until dawn.

Sleigh rides, ski trips, and the Musical Clubs program, which incidentally was better than average, really were nothing but expedients to pass away the time until the fancy dress ball Friday night. The ball was a seething mass of colors. There were countless red, green, yellow, and blue stripes on the great canopy which enveloped the gym and made it appear like a gay pavilion, but the colors seemed to have a rhythm which Bert Lowe and his IS syncopators caught and played with variations. The brilliantly costumed, jostling crowd of dancers filled up the flashing pavilion with a buzzing gaiety. When, at 4 A.M. the dancers could not cajole another chord out of him, Bert Lowe packed his instruments away and brought an end to the festivities.

On Saturday, the hockey game, the ski meet, tea dances and the basketball game with Harvard—but they were all overshadowed by the Players' presentation of "The Sahara Derby". S. J. Flannigan '23 and T. H. McKnight '23 the authors, deserve highest congratulations for analyzing their audience, their actors, and their settings so microscopically that they successfully accomplished the difficult task of building a musical play for college talent and college audience. "The Sahara Derby" has just the right degree of flippancy and youthful breeziness. H. H. Mills '23 and his followers interpret the scenes and tell their wheezes with just the right degree of grotesqueness, which avoids the slap stick of the movies and the forced cleverness of professional musical comedies. H. A. Sullivan '23, composer of all the principal music, furnished a number of catchy tunes, which fit the play and contain seeds of popularity.

The thinly woven plot, frequently and variedly interspersed with specialty acts, consists of the loves, intrigues and humorous predicaments of Raymond and Whitcomb, two unreformed Yiddish travelers in Arabia, Ethelbert, the racing camel of Ali Baba, the desert sheik, figures prominently in the unfolding of the story.

The first act opens in the lobby of the Grand Hotel and gives occasion for amusing interludes between the Jewish travelers, bell hops, sheiks, and desert vamps. The action then centers upon the Arabian desert.

T. H. Norton '23, with the assistance of Q. H. Moore '23, designed the scenic settings for the production, and R. G. Jones '24 is in charge of the costuming.

The orchestrations were prepared by Prof. Maurice F. Longhurst of the Music Department and were played by the Players Orchestra under the direction of D. E. Cobleigh '23.

The complete cast is as follows:

Raymond .........H. H. Mills '23 Whitcomb ...........J. G. Butler '24 Herbert ............G. B. Lockwood '24 Clarence ...............H. B. Watson' 23 Cassandra .............R. G. Jones '24 Mrs. Proctor ..........R. W. Morin '24 Prudence ..............W. M. Patterson '24 Smith .................R. C. Smith '26 Ali Baba ...............T. R. Wyles '26 Ethelbert............J.M Hutton '24 C. W. Higley '24

Girls of the chorus—J. W. Dregge '24, P. T. Ranney '24, W. W. Thornton '24, M. F. Emerson '25, P. H. Kelsey '25, K. C. Simonds '25, C. R. Wilson '25, C. C. Brown '26, R. T. Cox '26, and M. McClintock '26.

Men of the chorus—W. C. Evans '23, C. W. Sawyer '23, G. S. Anderson '24, F. W. Smith '25, G. H. Robinson '26, and C. R. Starrett '26.

In the brief hour after the show all Carnival couples hastened to cram in another dance or two before midnight, when all were forcibly brought to realize that Dartmouth is located in the Puritanic fastnesses of New England by the dreaded cessation of the music at the stroke of the clock. After midnight—well, too few cases were observed to furnish us with sufficient grounds on which to generalize.

When the Boston and the New York specials, carrying away the girls, rolled out of sight down the Connecticut the college sighed in regret that such a good time should come to an end and trudged up the hill to catch up on lost sleep..