With the Players
FROM George Bernard Shaws' Heartbreak House to Robert Sherwood's Road To Rome in ten days was really quite a jump. However, thanks to one of the best production crews ever seen with the Players, the sets were up and ready with three days to spare, and the actors who had been working on the RoadTo Rome since vacation had about one whole week with the scenery.
The Road To Rome, our Green Key show offered the difficulty of a large male cast, but almost immediately after spring vacation they were sandwiching rehearsals in with the April show. Bill Mowry returned from the dean's list to play the lead with Sally Drury, wife of Dan Drury '26. Beside these two, the honors of the show go to Bill Blees '38, Dick Shaw '39, Norm Anderson '37 and Herb Levine '37, for their especially fine work. It is only too bad that the weather was so nice during the week-end, that many found it more to their liking to stay out of doors than to use the tickets they had purchased. Thus, although the box office sale of tickets passed the sale for all former spring shows, the house was small both nights.
The success of The Road To Rome with those who attended the performances has brought numerous requests for a repeat performance. The directorate feels more than justified, therefore, in having picked this shown for its Commencement production on June 12. Reservations may be made now for the show.
As I write this column for the last time, it is indeed with a heavy heart. A hard but glamorous and very successful season is now a memory. The curtain has been rung down on the second subscription season, and some twenty seniors look back on four years' work with the Players wishing that they could go on to more smash hits and flops on the Hanover stage. Now, we pass the stages in Webster and Robinson, the grease paint, workshops and old traditions on to the new crew who were elected to office on May 10. The election meeting this year was followed by a banquet at the Inn, at which we bid our fond farewell and stepped out in favor of the new directorate.
Sidney B. Cardozo '38 is president, Arthur W. Robbins '38 holds the new and very big job of Student Technical Director, and William V. Blees '38 is Student Director. These boys will lead the Players on to the third consecutive subscription season which promises to be the best of all. All the luck and best wishes in the world to them, Warner, Henry, and the gang.
