THE COLONEL'S LADY,

by Ashton Stevensand Gene Markey '18. Dierkes Press, 1948;Unpaged (16).

This skit is unique in that the introduction by Vincent Starrett is nearly as long as the text of the play, i.e. 5 pages to 8.

Written originally for Beatrice Lillie when she starred in Chariot's Revue, the idea unaccountably popped up prematurely. It was written by somebody else, as The Last Shot with Maizie Gay in a London music hall, and so Stevens and Markey were denied their moment of glory.

The authors have satirized broadly a Colonel Blimp and his repressed wife in a hilarious but not very subtle one-act play which may be read in two minutes by a stop watch. A bit of harmless and good fun.