Music and the Players

The department of music is to be credited with a remarkable record during the last few years for presenting to Dartmouth audiences concert programs. On the Webster Hall stage have appeared within a few years such artists as Kreisler, Schumann-Heink, Werrenwrath, Harold Bauer, Pablo Casals, Roland Hayes, Carl Flesch, Russian Symphonic Choir, Paul Whitman and Heifitz.

Roland Hayes, the popular choice of Dartmouth patrons of the concerts according to a vote taken last season, will come in April next year. Also coming are the English Singers, three men and three women who sing old English carols, Yelly D'Aranyi, an Hungarian violinist (Yelly is a girl's name in Hungarian it seems), and Andres Segovia, who according to the announcements plays Fandangoes on his Spanish guitar. Professor Maurice F. Longhurst is the director of this series, and Sidney C. Hayward is managing it.

The Players opened their season the night before the Brown game with "The Barker" by Kenyon Nicholson, a play which, if you remember Metropolitan productions of it, will be recalled as a snapshot taken from a day of elemental love and life in the dressingroom tent of a circus troop. Everyone agrees that the play was well acted but the propriety of repeating words used by show people has been doubted. An obvious reason is that the audience was made up partially of 'chaperons and house party guests attending dances given by the fraternities before and after the big game. Some of us in this younger generation do not quaver when we hear on the stage words frequently hurled around dormitory halls and still others doubt the value of protecting too closely the rising generation of young women.

J. W. Riley, a talented freshman, took the lead opposite Mrs. J. B. Hawley. Mrs. Ellsworth Armstrong, wife of a football player in the junior class, and J. W. Hodson, president of The Players, had other major parts.

The next production will be "The Dover Road," the comedy by A. A. Milne, to be performed shortly before the Christmas holiday.