The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-10
PRINCETON PLAY TRIED HERE
4 SULTAN OF SOMETHING WITH
THE SAME Old PLOT,
But Nhs Cares n N AsnAas n Mar Way
GSSa and TSa Know seaae 0ne m the
CastS-Oas nsaS fhAa the Audience
Wamaed % Near over ana over AgAan.


brought 70 town IL nSw show.
Every year down AZ Princeton they do
An original musical play. They usually
cut it from the sane pattern, az II IN a
tropical country. scatter IN . fee travel
ling Americans with . waiting battleship
Il posalbla. aprinkls IN a few dialect per
sons and q potSntAts Who can be over
thrown readily, hven Il up with half q
dozen ~ 80 pony bAllstists. distribute
the sOngs With impartiAlity among the
cast. pus most of the plos in the first
&C, schedule a quiet. lights down cong
for the opening Of Act IL. and ring up the
curtain
This year it's -His Honor The sultan
and the action occurs IN spot called Al
hAbbA. which yesterdays audience wAs
interested TO learn Is 10 be found IA Tan
jocco Cyrus Mccormick. II. who "a
football player when he ISN'T An author.
wrote the book 81 the play between punts
last fall T. T. Nsvin. -. a son % Ethel-
bert NsSin. did the music. and he did .
good iob. there . MUS strain. for
example. almost a motif. 10 the play that
r~curs With good edec, y thompson.
II. followed up the music with lyncs
that iInSieu ana sometimes we're funny
he also played the SHadE
Given the secluaed court IN the Sgkdn .
palace young MT. McCormIck Anduced
his complications nv having Boo How
r'crd WHO vac easily traveller because
be carried a Basaezsr. pop N ana get
smittsn by the charms 81 AaTWaTd. the
SNItqRs favoTite daughter 30 course
be shouldn't have stayed after he found
ou' where ne wa ana passing that over
h4 shouldn't have been caught holding
hands with the trousersd young princess
later IN the act al a avn f@te 90 wnIcn
the American Ambassador. the HOr
Gro--spor. hAi brought him NIrh Ne
srosonOr Mrs. S'ratgAioE, chAtty
suffrage worker from nat,le CreeS Stsss
HiHydrr her attractive niece. ana; LitHi.
kdc Ta,rsA Who brought hls scotch
accent "a X NJ y Vaiour Naturally
the suiaa discovered the Amsncan with
a half tldred around the favorite nsugh-
ter's waist and immediately the majesty
Of the y A vas shattered by throwing
the 10, into chains
HCrrlcA scAIitS who seemed IN Be under
IN. impression that ne T',sgsrds Biqfsr
would welcome all the news tens that
he could gather. Interpos~d . plea cut %
respect 10 the Kasssr. bat IN Differences
% the plot the SsitGA Was Aflman'.
Then Mar,sSra recalled that many years
before papa had been - pleased 20 have
her ~ a daughter that he had sworn 70
grant one r-queSs that she might ass IN
later years. ThiS, !, app~4r~d. she mad
been holding out On the SUiida and when
ahe came across with " the -na~Ele- fell
but That only took one act. ana - mean
n
oreu~d by tWo very plotty clnspIrators
M Bob HdmnoRd sn@as-si 0aSk o. the
palace and ~ltn the help q the AHlbassaaos
ami SeHllir spacn~d the Sultas ana tossed
aim INTO a cell. Schl1z took me clothes
and ais shrOn-. and h.ld the tune - ms
lifa flirting W1th the harrn and bathing
Ms hands IN the treasury Things we're
looking very bright WREN the real up
rising happened and n had - explain
that he was imposing ms rlch German
accent upon TAnloccO. Pardons by the
new SuitdH. tuning rage ny the dspos~d
dsspor. probahlss Wedding bells Tor How
ssoEd and Hdvm1rd and Noe Tari-h and
Sl-sy. closing chnrIs, and their you are
A. HIrmdra appeared Brown Rol~'ou.
10 pr"sideu' q the Triangle club and
ne vas as der1nAIr and Niiful 40 Disable
he had m the op~n'ng Cn0TR. The
S'IlfAn- favort. Daughter. the song
that ran through the play THIS - the
way the isst few hn-- &.
isers MAJ thst saoss Ne owes
Pa ne onJ -Aa .noU
g. for hin -uAa A. uzE~rr
MAJ ~ must 90
Besides beng able 90 dance he va =
pleasant figure 20 watch and whea the
aud ~nc- got Ov@r his voice thee wa
nothing 10 - desired Mot Of ~ -cSns-
we're with Van : Merie-Srnirh 1911 Who
pr I'D Hammond. and they wer- a g.v@t
PAR M~rbr- Smith caused the afternoon
SCHOOLGIRL audience 10 catch IT, breath.
for ~ vas absolutely my d~Ar the most
attractive thing they had ever E~-n
ALSO he could lance and ~ one % the
three numbers vhIch h. and ROl-ton had
together Hero and ieAnder the-e as
ar opportunity '1r a iot 81 kid business
which both OF them ran through a. n
they oouldn Z think Of any WAv o. having
better time. II vas ut that had 20
nave many rspeutIOns Ways d Ameri-
can Men and -Tanjo Bride were the
two other songs that these young men
galloped through and seerned % enjoy
a. much ~ the audience Thompson
Wa = sr@'Irasthsnic a sultan as any one
coulf want. L. X Howe, 1911 and l.
7 Getty 1911 A. Ma s,rdichfoa and
Me- gro-yenor. called each other Belle
and Blanche and sang -H You Cant b
Lady Be . SuRrA&ette Howe end
Thompson had \ number called Married
LIFE with the kind u business that S.ts
plenty d laughs. Z. N. RarnhArt. 1917?
brushed past the guards and broke n
on the avn party r. @ Watson. 1919
~ S,ssv wns q wonder 90 look az and x G.
Rolston. 1910. a. MaeTdvisA made ssverAi
persons thirsty with his scotch z c.
Jessap 1911 a. the Ambassador. J X
LArkin. 1913, a. I5rdhir All. and p
Mysrs. 1918. - NoA1mned pdsAa. got
away with parts that offered less chance
p , Waters. no. had q good VOICE for
the solos IN che opening and closing
choruses that came his way.
And you ought 20 have seen the sultan
wives. With their scarlet blous~s and
things the nine Of them muat have given
that ruler plenty % do 70 follow them
around the palace They we're al over
the shop IN every dance.
The undergraduates have their own
student orchestra. made up o. stucients
and led and trained ~ one " 3 Wa
asid ID. Who u q senior. - the ulusical
director this year. His tAton didn't
lntrIde itAsR into the aousS but Won
knew that L was there and once in a whlla
e would give . short tan tap that put
ginger into = ARginG chorus man or
reminded one 81 the musicians thar u
vAs blazing the tempo trail A. sor
the orchestra. u nay be said that il vac
able 20 follow the idiosynerAsieS q ana
tours singnR topical sOnRs which are