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The second Boston performance of the Hasty Pudding play will be given this evening and the final performance tomorrow night in the Plymouth theatre at 8.30 o'clock.
"It's Only Natural" was exceptionally well received by the audiences in New York and Philadelphia and the comment by the critics was everywhere favorable.
The New York Tribune compared the play with "Tip Top" and found the Pudding burlesque fully as entertaining as Fred Stone's production. The New York Sun praised the "ladies" of the cast and Chorus whom they reported "kept the entertainment going with a zip and a bang". The New York Herald said the play "enabled Harvard to claim one more victory" and gave the following general comment on the performance: "More and more do college theatrical productions approximate the Broadway standard, and the annual show of the Hasty Pudding Club, called "It's Only Natural", which was given at the Plaza last night, approximated the Rialto brand of musical comedy so closely that it would be hard for even that expert, the tired business man, to tell the difference.
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