Show weather mark hit By MAX GREEN Incidental music by Mendelssohn and intermittent rain from heaven conjured up a charm during the first-night overture to the Summer Festival presentation of A Midsummer Night's Monday This charm continued through the whole performance the brisk baton tap of to the tip of waggish Puck's enchantment of sodden determination n hunched the audience review of For Green's nee tors seek re- J with hath a a kind kino oi of determination m- of falling all over with an isolated excellence of acting by one nor did it sag because of patchy The even consistency of its feeling made artistically superior to a Like any object a play by Shakespeare will disintegrate in the hands of a clumsy FOR Beverly as entered and became the fairy queen because she was costumed in white spoke her lines with measured and glided about with a grace in keeping with the wind-wafted white of her Her difficulty over lines in the fourth and fifth acts did not cancel out this initial Mistakes need only be it is voice and movement that are David N. Morgan in the part of Oberon was something of a ludicrous dracula until his wings were drenched and finally His without such costume was excellent A little fairy had to acquaint Chet Dowse with the right in a deafening stage but the humor of the slip was at one with the bumbling The romantic as played by Mary Ethel Eccles and Virginia were absurd and Miss McGrew was rather easy to hear but difficult to understand in her ecstatic while Miss Eccles was too much a at to ever warrant Demetrius' Her brittle sauciness was MEL MARSHALL and V. Doug Snow played the parts of Lysander and Demetrius like a pair of young cockerels the stage in both speech and Miss Osterberg as had a weak part to start with and didn't strengthen it any by mouthing dental d's and t's and by not exploding her p's and The interlude was silliest stuff ever Pointing out one's satisfactions with it would be like counting Lees' one by in the skin of Wayne was credible as a proud but overdid pat fussiness in his opening The mere informal banter at the end of the last act pleased this ear far His delivery of Shakespeare's at the outset of act five was an incisive The dancing and choreography blended into transitions and mood interludes of Mendelssohn like wisps of animated sheet Muggy muslin on a breezy night is not exactly a raiment of comfort even if it is The children who took part in the gnome and fairy scenes for a not coached to a Their quick wiggles and steps were natural and Two little girls almost broke into open trying to decide who was to go first during the wedding ALDEN RICHARDS was truly honest His Agility on the slick stage was equalled only by his impish His coaxing coups de grace upon the lady-lovers were His apology for the tom-foolery of the play was so convincing that I caught myself giving him mr being and waiting while Robin restored The stadium lights had come up before the spell was really |