Evening star., 1925-12-27
YALE CLUB SCORES
IN OUT Of LUCK"
Student Players Give Effec-
tive Performance of
Humorous War Drama.

"Out a Luck" played by the Yale
University Dramatic Association last
night before n large audience al Ward
man Park Theater. portrayed the
humorous side of the World War,
humorous more particularly To- those
who did not experience the mud. the
wounds and the "cooties."
"Out o. Luck" is the work of Tom
Gushing, Yale, %. author of the
drama tiZation of Blood and Sand
and other successful plays Mr..
Gushing was himself overseas during
the war and his play is partly the re-
suit of his own observations OF the
American doughhoy in the trenches
and behind the lines.
In "Out of Luck" there is the same
grim humor. the same ''patter' that
is found in What Price Glory But
the sordidness of the Stallinss play Is
omitted. The Yale players put it
across" with vim and punch. and Ill
tho same time with real dramatic
ability.
Only One Girl in Cast.
The pIav deals particularly with
the adventures of eleven doughboyS
who are isolated in French cottage.
r,It off from the rest of their battalion
Just when they had expected to be
relieved from front line duty. There
is lust one female part. French
girl Jeanne MurSaC. in he play, ana
the Americans al take great M
terest in her. Jeanne is admirabiN
plaved by William NJ. Hinckle, %.
one Of the most amusing parts of
the play is found in the show which
tho hoys themselves put on after they
have been isolated. They have the
costumes which they had used in ma
lure theatriCals ut Brest. While they
arc disportin- themselves the German
:,dvanCe takes place. Clad IN Sllken
ballet costumes, they seize their mel
rncfs and GUNS and run out 10 fepel
the attack.
out d Luck" may not stir the
emotions as did What Frlce Glory.
hut it produced just az many lauSilS'
The parts are all we'll taken ana WIN
= finish aud sureness that SPEAK :
we'll for both the ability ana codch-
in- of the Yale Players
out q Luck" was given at
m3finee Yesterday also by the Yale
Dramatic Association. The committee
in charge of the production here con
sisted of William {. Miller. chairman:
Frederick II. Brooke. {. Mathews
Dick. {. c. Glover. jr.: Reeve Hoover
Thomas Hopkins, il: George H.
Myers. Charles 7. Stone. il; W aiter
Wilcox Richard II. Wilmer and DAVID
f. karricF local agent.
List Of Patronesses.
The patronesseS for the perform
ance follow:
mrs. chandler =. Anderson. Mrs.
Clarence \. Aspinwal. Mrs. DENSE
FarkaIow. Mrs. Thomas +. Bayard.
Mrs. +. Lammot Belin. Mrs. Hiram
Bingham, Mrs. Douglas Putnam
Eirnie. Mrs Frederick Brooke. Mrs.
Thomas Claytor. Mrs. anthony WAYNE
Cook. Mrs. Richard =. Crenshaw. Mrs.
Charles, :. Dewey. Mrs. {. Matthews
Dick. Mrs. Edward Nelson Din=ley.
Mrs. Irhn I. Dryden. Mrs. Oliver Ed
wards. Mrs George Ehle. Mrs. stephen
T. F.lkirs. Mrs. John l.. Gibbons. Mrs.
c. L. Glover. ir.: Mrs. John Hays Ham
mond. Mrs. FairfaX Harrison. Mrs
F.u-ere T.. IIinkle Mrs. L. l.. I. HIT.
Mrs. William D. Hoover. Mrs. Thomas
Hopkins. 1r.: Mrs Walter Bruce Howe,
Miss Helen :. Jones. Mrs. james L.
IIarrick. Mrs. Paul Kaufman. Mrs.
.Iames Kerr. Mrs. Ernest knaebel'
Mrs. Could Lincoln, Mrs. \. g. NC
Clintock. Mrs. Randolph II. Mcklm.
Mrs. George y. McLanahan. MIS-.
James Magee. Mrs. Schuyler Merritt
Mrs Eugene Meyer. Mrs. W. {. Mil
ler. Mrs. Edward \. Mitchell. Mrs.
William D. Mitchell, Mrs. J. Upshur
Noorhead. Mrs. George Hewitt Myers
Mrs Frank L. Noyes. Mrs. duncan
Phillips, Mrs. Ord Preston Mrs. L.
Francis Riggs. Mrs. Charles sheldon
Mrs. Morris sheppard. Nine. de 81
hour. Mrs. Harold Phelps Stokes, Mrs.
charles T. Stone. Mrs. Thomas Sell
Sweeney. MR.. William Howard Tart,
Mrs. Alfred l.. Thom. jr.: Mrs. " ms
low Van Devantsr. Nr-. lanes " aus
worth. ir.: Mr.. ''rgh Wallace. MrE'
Walter Ni'coH M".s. Richard y. WI
n,sf Nv rEt3uIer Nu,,dW 1rd. Mrs. Is.
Y II. Wylie. Mr.. Ycn~ kwai ana
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