The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-20
'They Never Come Back
Applauded by Audience at
the Waldorf-AstOria.

The Triangle Club of Princeton. start
ing it's annual Christmas tour to show
folks how the muses. OF the theatre have
endowed the coming generation dis
played bounteous gifts at the Waldorf
Astoria Saturday night. where from
s 80 o'clock to nearly midnight an over
flow audience in the grand ballroom was
entertained as it would have been by
the "best show in town" They Never
Come Back" written and produced by
the students, even to the orchestra and
electrical effects, indicated beyond a
doubt that the future has been made
safe for musical comedy.
Peru, where they sing that IAN the
Incas Were Heavy Drinkers" Is the
locale of the merriment. not a little OF
which comes from the appearance Of
husky athletes la Julian Eltinge.
Mike" Callahan. football hero of the
university. is one of the cast, but UNI
fortunately for the admirers of feminine
form he played the part of an Inca
guard. The superfine If domineering
dowager. however, was depicted by f.
T. Corbett as the wife and master OF
Sir Rolloper Doyle, played by e. Fl.
Viewer in Sir Oliver Lodge makeup and
ouija board sidearms. Mr.. Viewer is
clearly the successor of George NJ
Cohan. for in addition to his highly
amusing performance he provided the
dialogue. most of the lyrics and one Of
the best OF the songs
Some of the b is showed him to be
disciple of Ed Wynn. F~ank Tinney and
Savoy and Brennan. but 1t can be said
fairly that he improved upon his as
teIs. The burden of the acting and
singing-was given to ]. r. Forgan. as
Lc'7'n Brewster. an American rolling
stone. busy spending the moss his Ga ther
gathered, and he played his part with
the ease and pep" of professional.
F. NJ. Chapman, as FireWdther. Inca
chief, made an imposing figure and dis
played quite bass voice.
The plot OF the play--it has one-is so
many sided that perhaps this effusion
of the undergraduate press agent will
best describe It:
Among the ruins of old Incadom.
artistically represented by soberly inn
aSinative wielders of color all tynes Of
Princeton men from the literary genius
to the hulk 'ne sridiron god Unite lr in
terpreting battling succession Of rrys-
terry, comedy, satire. melody ard beauty
All this, representing the best Of carried
undergraduate talents has been cleverly
interviewer to produce the unity and
polish of Professionalism best, get
maintaining withal the delightful vIgo-
and buoyancy of amateur invention"
The audience of society folk and other
friends of the university and players
who witnessed the first night" had
hard time keeping their shoulders still
and simply lost control of their tapping
feet as the undergraduate orchestra, led
by Harold F. Mccormick, jazzed forth
his own compositions and more by A.
Nathan. Jr.
A group of debutantes who we're
ushers. included the Misses Kathlene
Crawford, Katherine Townsend. Sarah
Sage. Isabel Rockefeller. Martha Otley,
Mary Cogswell. Josephine Cotton. Susan
Coppell, Catherine Watzen. Laura Hard
ing. Katherine Francis and Frances
Isham.
The club plays to-day In Pittsburg
and journeys thence to Cincinnati In
dianapolis. st. Louis. Kansas City,
Omaha, Minneapolis. st. Paul, Chicago
and Cleveland.