With the Players
THE DARTMOUTH Players' first big hit will be over when this is read, but as this is written we are putting the finishing touches on Boy MeetsGirl, the Fall House Party show, with Polly Walters in the leading role of Susie. To quote from the show, "If you've seen her on the screen I don't need to tell you she's blond, beautiful, and gorgeous." And she has been on the screen. She comes to us after playing the role of the innocent Susie on the road and in Chicago. She told me with a grin that she'd played it one night in New York. Made famous by her sensational Broadway success in She Loves MeNot, she made several movies in Holly, wood, among which were Five Star Final and Smart Money. She then came east and played the role of the girl who sat on the waffle iron in Red Hot and Blue.
Almost like a line from the play itself is her remark about Dartmouth, "I think Dartmouth is wonderful. I wish that I had gone to college, I seem to have missed a great deal, but then, I might never have realized my ambition as an actress—and that's what counts." And she says of a theatrical career, "It's no fun without a struggle."
NEWCOMER PLAYS MAJOR ROLE
In the parts of Law and Benson there are Sandy Mills, a veteran actor, and Dutch Holland, a newcomer, who won the cup for the best acting in the fraternity plays last spring. Herb Landsmann takes the part of C. F., and though he is only a sophomore, he has already taken part in a great many Players' shows. Hal MacGilpen plays Rodney, the young English actor who falls in love with Susie. Page Smith plays Larry Toms, the cowboy ham.
Another innovation at the first show will be the appearance of Show, the first program of professional size the Players have had, containing news of alumni on Broadway and in Hollywood. At various times during the year the program will be distributed to alumni members of the Players. In addition it will have a Who's Who of the cast and several additional articles pertaining to the Players' work.
With Boy Meets Girl over, we shall commence rehearsal on the next two shows. The cast of What Every Woman Knows is busily engaged in learning a Scotch accent under the tutelage of Mr. Voelker of the Speech Clinic. The chorus and leads of The Gondoliers have started singing under the direction of Professor Longhurst.
Under the direction of Ted Packard the Experimental Theatre is ready to put on Amphytrion, and already the cast for Richard II is in rehearsal.
