Opinions Vary

Opinions about Olympian Nights vary. The show was full of quite Jigly Jingle and Gilbert and Sullivan always goes across, but was the show a good Extrav?

The Extray is indigenous to V.U.C. Other Colleges show less enterprise, but "Extrav." at V.U.C. means bright topical entertainment. The Extrav. can take liberties with drama, but only in order to fulfil its primary function of scintillating. Olympian Nights didn't scintillate, and Its topical allusions might have been written twelve mouths earlier.

At the beginning of the Olympian Nights we felt we approved. Thorne Smith's Gods had Extrav. possibilities. But as the evening ware on we found that we had seen dictators on the stage before and we know all about the shirt problem already. Then we came to the same conclusion as the author. These god-dictator people had no entertainment value and the best thing would be to put them safely back on their pedestals. But what a pity to use a whole Extrav. to do just that.

Popular songs should be subtly insinuatingly suggestive; we are afraid that Rollo and his Woiking Goll reminded us a little of the Magistrate's Court.

The male ballet belongs to the interlude item. The main Extrav. should not need to borrow it. And anyway, four male ballets in one evening.

We might mention that we consider the caricature on Prof. Adamson who is a very sick man, to have been rather cruel.