New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-12
In SKIRTS.
Columbia Students Paag Thee
spirators' This Week.

Columbia students wtI have chance TO show
what they can do IN the dramatic line when the
varsity show opens t. might at the Carnegie
Lyceum for weeks rIn. The play. which IS
called The COuspiratoEs" IS medley 81 song.
dance and dialogue IN which athletes play the
part OF chorus girls and women in society. Real
women are absolutely barred from the cast
For more than month the girls" have been
Learning how TO dress themselves. while mothers
and sisters have been called il 20 show them the
best way OF carrying a train or butroutng prin-
cess dress Now some Of the men can even
fasten hats 20 their wigs without driving the
hatplns into their heads while the arr Of walking
gracefully in long skirts has become mere habit
70 most OF them Love scenes have been re-
hearsed until the heroine can gracefully fall
into her lovers arms. with soft rnurnurs OF
appreciation. while tho lover throws his arm
about the "fraiI maiden as though he had been
accustomed 70 doing u al his life.
Among those who are 20 take part in the
show are some OF the best known undergradu-
ates at Columbia Heading the list Of feminine
parts IS r, K Wupperman. '06. who plays the
part OF AIadss Fairmont. a girl from the golden
West" who succeeds in winning the hearts OF
most of the men with whom she comes IN con-
tact At the head Of the masculine contingent
stand Walter E. Kelly. '07. and L. J. Ehret. 'Os.
son Of the well known brewer. Kelly and Ehret
play the parts OF the conspirators. one a weaz-
ened old professor who knows everything and
the other a tat and musical Dutchman. X 5.
Webb. '06 plays the part OF White Eagle. civ
nized Indian. who wins the hand of a New York
Senator's daughter Richard Conried son or
Heinrich Ccnried. IS billed as Lord Fftz Thistle.
who cannot understand Jokes nor girls, and who
IS finally defeated in love BY the Indian
Z. Y. Kehrlein, 'O7, who Is one OF the best
broad jumpers in college. is Ferdie Van Twiller,
the son Of q New-YOrl Senator who has several
million dollars and two daughters. John @.
Glen '09, IS the Senator while the part Of Doris
Van Twtler, twenty-ons years old, is played by
Allan T. Hopping. '07. Charles E. DunwoOdie
0s IS the other daughter, who IS Just twelve
years old. George h Reaney, '07 is an Irish
New-Yor}l policeman. while r NJ. Richter, '06. Is
Willie Bum. messenger who never delivers
hts messages to the right person Besides these
principals there is chorus Of twenty persons
ten or them the prertieSt girls with the dam
test forms that can be found at Columbia
Several of the actors IN this years show are
veterans OF former performances. so that the
chances Of everything getting mixed In touch
ing scene so that the heroine has to take time
out" for repairs TO her train, are somewhat
VIII be disappointed If they do not get chance
TO applaud when an insecurity fastened skirt
suddenly twists or the hero rushes frantically
about looking for the letter which the property
man has forgotten 70 give him.
The ConspiraIors" is written by Kenneth S.
Webb and Louis ]. Ehret, Webb writing the
book and lyrics and E1hret being responsible for
the music. 1t is produced under the direction
Of l. II. Hooper, who staged "FlcrodOra ". J..
Brennan. '06. is the manager who looks AFTER the
financial part The money that is left over after
the expenses OF production are paid VIII be con-
tributed to the various athletic teams
The plot is built on conspiracy formed by
Hans Blanderplatz and Professor Oglethrop 70
deprive Senator Van Twiller OF his millions
The conspirators appear IN Central Park which
the Senator has hired for the day to give hts
daughter Doris a birthday party There are
several love affairs involved. and at the end OF
the first act all the lovers are turned to stone
through the Vaccinations Of the professor. In
the second act the Is transferred to River
dale -the-E Hudson. where the Senator h2A his
country seat Here the conspfrastors exhibit
their statues, who through mistake, are
brought back to life. Then the cOnspirators
come to grief and are arrested while all the
other people are happily united. Short bur
Iesdues on Peter Pan "St-ongheart" and a
Bswery rnelodrama are introduced into the &C