"Ile," by Eugene O'Neill, was the choice of OU's Drama Club. By the time the curtain went up, the audience was probably in too happy a mood, thanks to the efforts of some enthusiasts with balloons, for the emotional drama presented to them, Frederick Farley, the judge, remarked on the lack of responsiveness by the audience, particularly in the tense scene between Captain and Mrs. Keeney (played by W. A. Walton and Jocelyn Shann); in this scene Mrs. Keeney begged her husband to take the ship in which they had been held in the ice, back to England. The captain is, however, determined not to return without a full cargo of whale "ile" and ignores first an incipient mutiny and secondly, after a momentary weakness, the entreaties of his wife. The climax of the play, when Mrs. Keeney went mad, fell a little flat, probably owing to the scarcely adequate handling of the part of Captain Keeney. The remainder of the cast, at times good, at others succeeded in making a very good play bad melodrama.