Show Directs U Music Play Courtesy Salt Jake Tribune Otto Harback at work he wrote which will be shown to The production is now in rehearsal and will be presented May 28 and College Talent Pleases I New York Producer am certainly pleased with the talent to be found at the university and it is one of the most charming campuses I have Thus Otto a native who has been making good on Broadway for a long summed up his impression of the university Wednesday after a three week sojourn in which he has been directing Straw for production May I Author of stage successes since when Harbach won his first recognition on he is at present directing the university production of his latest effort Straw which tells of the story of West Point during the Civil play is really a new It is a play with music j but is not a musical he I only time in which music is heard in the play is when the actors would naturally be The young lovers do not break into song during a love scene just because they are happy about it The music occurs when the characters would normally be The production which has been presented twice at Yale and at Duke universities proved to be a success at each This play which has been completely revamped for university staging will be duplicated on Broadway if every thing goes well the university whose stage successes include No of the and the and the and the and is a kindly man who has very definite views on direction which he has formulated from years of should be done by guidance instead of by making the actors imitate your If you force a rose to you WUl have a poor looking and is the same if you force characters to feel their he He expressed enthusiasm for the marvelous acting and singing talent to be found at the Jd gratitude for the efforts of speech and music departments efforts in combining their talents the Harbach holds the enviable record of having written more than songs and has had more than performances of his stage Jerome who has the music for straw may be in attendance at the university |