Idler Comedy Revival Opens 'Cliffe Season

Jacobean comedy will revisit, Cambridge this week when Radcliffe's Idler Club raises the curtain on its 1946-47 theater season. Directed by Mrs. Mark de Wolf Howe, the Garden Street actresses will present the first performances in 120 years of John Fietcher's "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife" on Thursday. Friday and Saturday eventings at Agassiz Hall.

First produced in 1624 before James of England, Flether's comedy was suppressed with all other English drama by the Puritan regime and returned to reach its height of popularity during the Resteration. In the 18th century in was frequently revived by Garrick and maintained its wid appeal until the last time it was performed in 1825.