Communication

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

De gustibus non est disputandum. "At last a real comedy," writes F. E. P. '18 in the CRIMSON for Tuesday after a night at the Majestic with "His Majesty Bunker Bean." Follows then an eulogy--an all-inclusive eulogy as far as the members of the cast are concerned--of the whole production and ends with the wish that Bostonians will make many more trips to the Majestic while Bunker is there.

What caused F. E. P. '18--I have not looked him up for his sake--to admire what I consider the worst comedy that has been seen on a Boston stage for some time I don't know. He calls the dramatization a happy one from Harry Leon Wilson's point of view--I admit it; it makes the story of "Bunker Bean" as it appeared in the Saturday Evening Post seem all the better. But, shades of the Jewett Players and "Arms and the man," where comedy is really being played, what dialogue. Mr. F. E. P. '18 says there is thorough sagacity shown in the arrangement of the dialogue. There would have been if there had been nine-tenths less of it. And, as for the leading lady, Miss Shirley, whom F. E. P. '18 liked so well, will he please tell me what she said worth while outside of "perfectly ducky" and "perfectly" this and "perfectly" that?

I am quite surprised that Mr. F. E. P. '18 did not eulogize the scene where this "most charming in years in Boston ingenue" held the stage alone for almost five minutes while she minced about to the melody of a popular tune on a fifteen-dollar Victoria. Perhaps this was like the porter's scene in Macbeth, to give the audience relief from tension. They were wrought up to the utmost of tensity, wondering what Bunker was packing in his suitcase, and needed relief.

If Bostonians are going to like "Bunker Bean," and eight telephone girls in back of me last night did not like it, I am afraid that the Athens of the North has forfeited her ancient right to the name of the city of discrimination. FREDERICK KEMP '16.