Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-02-13
EXAMS ENDED,
4FIE! FIE! Fiji"
RETURNS TO LIFE
Princeton Triangle Clubs Mu-
sicai Comedy to Be Produced
Here February 20.

Special to the Evening Star.
PRINCETON, Feb 13.-With the
close of the midyears examination
Qeriod the undergraduates are allowed
to remove their noses from one grind
stone to another and engage once
more in the regular routine of things
scholastic. Naturally an immense
feeling of relief pervades the campus,
although the annual percentage Of
men on the ragged edge of passing
are worrying themselves and their
professors about the results of the
ordeal. Fortunately 1t Is believed
that all the members of the Triangle
Club survived the weeding-out proc
ess and will be able to accompany
''Fie! Fiel Fi-Fil" to Newark on the
Goth. Rehearsals for the perform
ance are scheduled to start on
Monday, allowing several days to
whip the production into shape once
moro.
w. M. Ellis, 1915, president of the
stub, will conduct the preliminary
workouts, for Lewis Hooper. the reg
ular coach (and incidentally the only
professional element in the entire
show has gone west to stage some
wild and woolly movies" In addi-
ton to being a regular producer of
Lambs Club, an actor of ability and
an Englishman by birth, Mr.. Hooper
dabbles to some extent in the busi-
ness of reels and films. In fact, just
before the Triangle Club went on the
road for its Christmas trip, the YER
satile coach insisted on perpetuating
''Fiei Fie! Fi-Fi' in the movies"
The picture doesn't appear under
that name, but the Newark audience
will easily recognize the members of
the company when the Aim is finally
produced.
There is, moreover, a strong possi-
hility of "Fi-Ffs" being adopted by
g. regular company. In accordance
with the advice of professionals, the
show was copyrighted some time ago
and 1t is understood that several
hawk-eyed managers have made Of
1ers to the undergraduates manage
Snent for the rights of production
After witnessing the opening per-
torrance a Brooklyn critic rendered
his august verdict as follows: This
delicious little vehicle was an
nounced as a musical comedy and
the name can only be disputed to the
extent that it is also given to in
Vulnerable Broadway productions
that possess less vivacity, less spark
ling humor and less genuine music"
In similar vein the Chicago Tribune
declared that "'Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi' de-
serves more lasting place on
amusement boards than collegians
can give It," Meanwhile, there is
Princeton's wonderful young basso,
@. Lambert Heyniger, 1916 (the
bandit chief, Del Monte, in the
show, to whom grand opera is max
ing nattering offers, although the
young seven-foot prodigy is only a
member of the Junior class. OF
course, Newark society will remem-
Der Heyniger as the tall sheriff in
last years production, "The Pursuit
Of Priscilla
The most spectacular feature, how
ever, in the show this year, is the
specially dancing of D. d. Griffin,
1915, as Celeste, with Charlie
Koch, 1876, as his partner. In the
second act the two take part in
cabaret dance in the most approved
Fashion. and after one look the West
srn debutantes no longer doubted the
Veraclty OF the Triangle's press agent
vino announced that Charlie Koch,
of New Orleans, had trotted away
with cups in dancing competitions
from Bustanoby's to San Francisco.
Charlie is certainly graceful from
the tips of his syncopated feet to
the top of his brick red head OF
the stage however. Koch is a prosaic
civil engineering student concerned
with the mysteries of surveying and
mental arithmetic.
DeCourcy w. Orricl1. 1917, of Balti-
more, who is well known in Elizabeth
society. is a show "girP' in the Tri-
angle play A. Mansfield Kidder 1915,
first violin in the undergraduate or
chestra and substitute leader, Is from
Highwood. N. j., and w. Manning
Barr. 1915. the villainous Giuseppe,
Is from Metuchen. OF course, the
big New Jersey attraction Is Walter
L. johnson, of Newark, as the super
animated maiden, Glover Blossom
This is Johnson's first year in the
Triangle Club. but his dramatic
ability was we'll known by virtue of
his three-year connection with the
English Club. Last year that organ
fzation presented Ibsen's "Pillars of
Society" and Johnson, as usual,
starred.