New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
YALE PLAYERS HERE
To Present Russian Comedy Re
1fzOr" in English at Waldorf.

HazItt once told group OF Oxford students
that the stage had grown up with the college and
the university, and that while many famous ac-
tors had never known the gories of an alma
IN relating the benefits derived from amateur sx
hiDitions Wilton Iackaye. Frank keenan, James
h racket and numerous other good actors in
this country will tell you that it was the anna
teur performance Of the schooIday period that tD
spired them to more pretentious activity and
eventually led to their adopting the stage as nro
fesson.
Nearly every college and university In thu 1ors
mas It's stage and its dramatic club. In a few Of
'he greater educational institutions the arr oF act
Ing is being taught by men of known abilit,, -,
from time 10 time the collegians emerge IN sow
or the standard plays. Old Eli has sent 10 60
us student players. banded since 1899 under tba
name of the Yale Dramatic Association -rS
nave been rehearsing on the stage OF the F,ynD,rs
Theatre a Russian comedy by Nikolaf C;ogoI coiI =
Revizor'-in English. The Government Irsnao
tor. Tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow rtrS.
,ne m iaIe players Will give public performances or
Revizor' at the Waldorf-Astoria -
'Revizor' was acted here in the or,g,ra, -.
Nazimova and her East Side pIavers ~. -a',ie
uelore she reached Broadway IL ,s No. -.
'ta' II was ever acted in English The translo,io
~ aS inaue oy member of the Yale faculty rb,s
~ ~" may De said In advance for 'Revizor,. IN
iiAe numerous other Russian erfusiops tba. -,
been made into English IL is a vrboIas 90 "a,
WIN many drou situations. all OF than, -o,,,,,
0 "o oouot their author intended tbe,. sLo,'11
Tue cunning OF Russian officlaldom II ~ 80 .
.le srosshess OF Anna Karenina" nor a. s,.S :
Va lat'er day apostle of Russian Iiterat,Ira -
Maxim Gorky. ''eIature-
iaie players will be among fris,1. .L..
ueS make Their appearance az the u.aIs..s
@ .ola tomorrow afternoon and that - ., as
' '"sA more difficult but none the Isss ~ ~
us"s' FRANK Lea Short coached the nra,I'','
H ns current number OF THE Yale Al,p,n, WI ~
gives the following account ~ ,ha week
ton: ''' oi the orsaniza-
1Saa III / die Dramatic Association v.as s-,
fTStarSSt.n marry D. Wescott 'OI The idSt IN
beaU IarceS had proved a faiI,goi iilt Juntor
OF 800 'iiilIated by faculty edct ana - anu mad
was ala idss meeting the ma ~ 1tle lall
Old IVceHroS S Str WesCott In the rear rN
fortb ~ euln hfty men gathered anS tOotn or
I4'tm ~ the aims ana Ideals of tbs anu heard set
mari 20 10 De radically dnferent fpp"STu fro,p club.
C'oiurhio 0letles or Pennsylvania princocne cne ors-
for ~ q according to the plans of NJ ana
TO he tcIart. i9Ice or musical SSotts
produce drsrNu' tne proposed association SbOis
which were sSi,,oU1 U1 literary value. and only fSHs
was forrse sage Along these lines tbn @ ete proies-
Thc 1utu ana has continued ~ N'SVSiaton
soCiattor Pct lorinanCe OF the Vale Drar,.,
New Uaveo 'A pace IN the IIypericS srS S'S As
double bi1 on on MAY %. 1900 il coDs,s,ae aaeStre,
tized by MIR WWeneers "Pardoner's Tale :" 49, 0n
every rasnst as forum" The play Vas SstSry play,
s4OO' daati.| except as Regarded i,s success IN
friends nS tor the first Vear uo ns nnahceS. A
was succea1aJ loNenent. The drst tcrSl 49, oIl oy
1891 nr,I a pS the following nia1,s Fhiance
Aia q. al the Hyperion 1ns.,r..