CURTAIN RISES ON NEW PUDDING PLAY

The eighty-first annual spring production of the Hasty Pudding Club, "Gentlemen, the Queen!", will be launched on its 1927 career tonight at 8:15 o'clock in the club house with the usual special performance for the graduates of the club.

The first public performance will take place on the club house stage tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock. This will be followed by six additional performances on April 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14. The show will play at the Academy of Music in Northampton on Saturday, April 16, and will take the boards in the Penn. Athletic Club in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 21. On the following day, the trip will close with a performance at the Mecca Temple in New York.

Arrangements for the opening tonight were completed Saturday afternoon with the arrival of the elaborate Elizabethan costumes which play an important part in giving the old English atmosphere of the play. At the conclusion of the formal dress rehearsal held last night, Augusts Barratt, coach of the production, declared that he was more than gratified with the work of the cast.

This year the cast is led by five veterans of previous productions. The female lead will be played by W. S. Wilson '27, in the role of Queen Elizabeth. Wilson, a veteran of "Laugh it Off" and "1776" is accompanied in this production by four other players who have seen service on Pudding Stage. George Higginson '27 portrays the Spanish Ambassador in the role of Don Ramon; C. E. Henderson '27, star goofus-player of "1776" plays the Jester in "Gentlemen, the Queen!" and does some specialty work. Franklin Dexter '28, of the cast of "1776", takes the part of Shakespeare in the present production, while the fifth veteran is M. B. Wells '28, who takes the ingemie role of Lady Evelyn.