Pudding Play Opens Tonight At 8:30 p.m.; Cost Is Slashed

Hasty Pudding's 101st annual theatrical, "Tomorrow is Manana," went through a final test run last night before an audience of Pudding alumni and opens officially at 8:30 p.m. tonight.

When the curtain goes up tonight, it will actually be the third performance for "Tomorrow Is Manana." The show was first presented in full Wednesday to patients from Murphy General Hospital.

Estimates of the final production costs of the 1949 play come to $11,500. This figure is only one fifth the amount spent on last year's "Here's the Pitch." "We've run the production on a shoe string," Pudding President Alan F. Winslow '47, said yesterday.

"We made the economy possible by doing a lot of work such as designing and making sets and costumes on our own, whereas last year we hired professional help." Much of the $50,000 expense of the 1948 show was incurred when the show went on the road. This year all presentations will be confined to the Pudding Building on Holyoke street.

The play, a musical set in a mythical Latin-American republic, Anyguay, records in two acts and 12 scenes the efforts of Rodrigo, a jungle dweller, to modernize the sleepy state along the lines of the United States. His knowledge of the U.S. is limited to what he has read in Life Magazine.

Myhrum, Gwynne in Leads

Resistance to the revamping immediately is offered by the peons. Robert G. Myhrum '48 and Frederick H. Gwynne '51 play the lead roles of Rodrigo and Pablo, heads of the peons.