GRADUATES WILL SEE OPENING PERFORMANCE OF "IT'S ONLY NATURAL"

This evening the members of the Hasty Pudding Club will witness the final dress rehearsal of "It's Only Natural", and tomorrow night the graduates of the University will see the first public performance of this seventy-sixth annual dramatic production of the Pudding Theatricals. The two performances on Friday and Saturday of this week will be open to the public.

The play will be given on April 18 at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, on April 20 and 21 at the Hotel Plaza in New York, and on April 26, 27, and 28 at the Plymouth Theatre in Boston. Tickets for the Philadelphia performance will be on sale at the Hotel Bellevue-Stratford; for the New York performances at the Harvard Club of New York City, McBride's, and Tyson's; and for the Boston performance, at Herrick's, the Copley-Plaza, and at the ticket office in the corridor of the Little Building. Seats for the Cambridge performances are $2.50; orchestra seats for the other performances are $3. The Philadelphia performance and the Friday evening performance in New York will be followed by dancing at which the subscribers will be the guests of the Hasty Pudding Club.

"It's Only Natural", a musical comedy, was written by W. C. Jackson '22 and R. C. Rogers '23, with the assistance of Edgar Scott '20. The music was written by Joseph Alger Jr. '22, Howard Elliott Jr. '22, S. P. Moorehead '22, and A. L. Steinert '22.

Laid in White Mountains

The play opens with a house party, given in the White Mountains by Mr. Burroughs (Joseph Alger Jr. '22), a wealthy American business man: In the first act Archie Carr (Joseph Larocque Jr. '23) is accepted by the beautiful Evangeline (W. J. Banes '22), daughter of Burroughts, but throught the inadvertent meddling of Clive (Huntington Brown '22), a semi-insane English friend of the Burroughs family, the blacker side of Carr's past is revealed and he is ejected from the house party.

The second act centers about Mr. Burroughs' refusal to allow his Cockney gardner to go into the moving picture business. In spite of his refusal, Kemp (W. C. Jackson '22), the gardner, runs off, becomes fabulously rich, and by the time of the next annual house party at the Burroughs home, he has nearly succeeded in accomplishing the financial ruin of his former master. In the final act, however, Clive's insane but harmless interferances succeed in bringing back the lost fortune and in reuniting the separated lovers. Carr's blemished character is vindicated and the villainous gardner is carried away under the care of two policemen.

Many changes of scenery and the introduction of specialty numbers vary the program. C. A. Tierney '22 has the leading role in the pantomime representing "The Shooting of Dan McGrew". Joseph Alger Jr. '22 and F. B. Taussig '22 will give the "Drunken Sisters", a burlesque of the songs and dances of the Duncan Sisters of "Tip Top".