Dramatic Club's Fine Show

On Thursday and Fiday night, before large audiences, the Dramatic Club opened their year with a very successful production of Noel Coward's "Hay Fever." "Smad" congratulates the players and everyone concerned with the show, on what was from start to finish a most enjoyable presentation.

Any attempt by amateurs to stage a comedy such as "Hay Fever" is ambitious, but with the limitations of the Gymnasium, it becomes even hazardous in the extreme. The success of the production, however, fully justified the risks the Club took in that direcion. The play, in Coward's mot superficially brilliant style, is a good one, expecially from the point of view of entertainment. The dialogue, which is its main attribute, combines swiftly-moving repartee with pseudo-theatrical speeches in a manner that is at once amusing and effective. The story of an artistic household existing in a stage atmosphere cast by the actress-mother, is extremely modern in its treatment and denouement, and quite worthy of presentation by an intelligent University cast.

Capable Cast.

On the whole, the acting was good-in spots, very good. The casting was particularly well done and all seemed to have a sound knowledge of the characters they were portraying. A feature that contributed largely to the success of the play was the way in which everyone played his part. Quite evidently they had absorbed the spirit of the play, and what was lacking in ability and technical experience was made up in sincerity. Undoubtedly, they did the play justice and made the most of the witticisms with which it abounds.