HE
tenth season of the University Players was one of
unparalleled success. Their effort to bring better
drama to the students of the University and to the
people of Lincoln were increasingly evidenced by
larger and more appreciative audiences than ever
before. The season opened with a new American comedy,
"The Goose Hangs High," followed by an evening of
one-act plays. Next came the 1924 Pulitzer prize play,
"Hell Bent Fer Heaven." The English stage subscribed
her best to the repertoire of seven plays in the form
of Sutton Vane's famous drama of death, "Outward
Bound," and the English comedy of manners, "Aren't We
All?"
An extra matinee of
the last two plays was given because of the interest
displayed in their production. One was Andreyev's
greatly discussed Russian drama, "He Who Gets
Slapped," and the other, the closing number, "Romeo
and Juliet."
The exceptional
services of Mr. Dwight Kirsch and Mr. Harold Sumption
in the preparation of the scenery and artistic stage
settings, the co-operation of the business offices,
and the perfect confidence of the players, under the
innimitable (sic) direction of Miss Howell, all
contributed to the consummate production.
The past has been
full, but the future is without bounds in this group
where the predominating idea is art, where
commercialism is excluded, where plays are done
because they are good and clean and the best, and
where perfect co-ordination, harmony and trust reign
supreme.