The New York herald., 1922-01-14
College Orlando
III; Calpert Plays
the Role in Mufi
Professional in Clawhammer
Saves Fine Performance Of
'As You Like It.

The Philolexian Society of Columbia
College and Wigs and Cues of Barnard
combined for the first time in the uni
versity's history last evening and pro-
duced "As You Like II" I'm the Plaza
Hotel. The performance took on ting
ling. live quality that made the audi
ence hang on every move with the
fascination of football game.
For one thing. Robert Turney, the
Orlando of the cast. was taken suddenly
Ill and Louis Calvert, coach of the pro-
duction, had to jump in and play the
part in an evening suit. The we'll known
actor has had a thorough grounding In
Shakespeare, but he was caught some
what off his Elizabethan balance. More
over. 1t Is some time since he has
played the dashing Orlando. So he had
to speak his lines with the prompt book
in hand, and during the romantic
speeches of RosoNnd he had occasionally
to bow his head and study his next
speech earnestly.
But he had the more eloquent mo-
ments well fixed In his memory and he
delivered the lines so forcefully and Wig
orously and with such feeling for the
poetry that one realized that man
could actually be impassioned In black
swalowtails. His apparel was ut the
opposite pole from picturesque hose and
doublet, ana yet trousers with crease
in them were able to take the spectator
back to the forest of Arden.
1t was really quite an amazing per-
formance. One waited, breathless, to see
what would happen next. and when it
did happen it seemed only right and
proper. And after the change of cast
had been announced from the stage the
audience took It all with high good
humor-it unquestionably sharpened
their interest in the presentation. In the
intermissien between the first and Sec
ond scenes whispers were frequent,
How will he carry off the wrestling
scene?" When. at that point, Mr.. Cal
vert stuffed his manuscript into his
pocket and started for the gigantic
Charles, the audience applauded tu-
multuously.
But the curtains were promptly drawn
on the tussle.-which only made the ao-
plause louder. And when the curtains
whisked back. disclosing the PROSTATE J.
Hutton Hinch, obviously chosen to plag
Charles because Of strapping football
physique, and guards stepped out and
carried him off like sack of meal, the
well bred spectators cheered Mr.. Calvert's S
verts triumph. There was much chuckling
when he was addressed as the young
orlando" and when Rosalind amorous'y
hung her necklace about him. and at the
end he received an ovation for his gal.
lantry in saving the play without a
makeup.
The student cast was excellent, fol
despite the distraction they never Went
up In their lines and addressed their
coach quite as though they expected him
there. Aside from the added interest 81
his presence, 1t was probably one of the
best college presentations ever al
tempted, for 1t had the devil may care
spirit Of the title.
And among the undergraduates, with
the hero out of the way, the villain
Oliver. In Richard Lincoln. quite ran
away with the play. Miss Clelia Benja-
min was charming and varied as Rosd-
! lind, Miss Dorothy McGrayne was natu-
raj as Celia, and Warner Tufts, Arnold
| T. Koch, Fraser Bond, Sterling Pierson,
Henry M. Robinson. Jr, and David Cort
added fresh voices and unspoiled per-
sonallty to their parts.
! Meanwhile Turney lay under the care
OF two physicians. threatened with penu-
monia, and thinking of hard things to say
to fate. He was similarly incapacitated
from playing the lead In the club show
q year ago. which makes him the cham
pion hard luck actor in college.
1t was expected that an undergraduate
substitute would be found for him when
the performance Is repeated tonight, but
II struck many that every once i'm a
while that was the proper fashion to
present Shakespeare