| Show Theater Sets Date For Comedy Frosh to Stage January 24 By NORMA BROADBENT a three-act comedy fantasy by Victor will be presented by the freshman class January 23 and under the di of Robert Wilson as the third of the University theater season scene is played entirely aboard the S. an excursion boat from New York to Coney sailing for the last time before the ship is converted into a garbage with its now silent legends and voyages of distant islands still fresh in the mind of Captain Obadiah Rich and his The passengers gathered for the final make a congress of ference and each with his chains to an industrial world and his ideals of freedom in a i hours escape from his normal The play is acclaimed by critic i Stark Young in as i a whimsical story of and from its cap-f tain and crew through the business men and women who seek release from their own mundane The story of the night they I spend just off Sandy Hook completes a tender and wise comedy that takes its place among the t stage's rarer and makes I it comparable to t The Literary Digest carried a re-I view of the initial performance run of the play in 1937 and tells of Author who unlike other playwrights returned to a farm after the presentation without waiting up all night for the morning papers' |
