Pudding to Send Show on Tour to Eastern Colleges

The annual Hasty Pudding musical will open in Cambridge "sometime in the middle of March" and will then go on to tour the East, stopping off at Bryn Mawr, Vassar, and Smith, Godfrey Truslow, president of the club, announced last Friday. The tour has a tentative opening date of April 6, in Philadelphia.

The musical is a new version of "Love Rides the Rails," written by a WPA-sponsored playwright during the Depression. "Although the play was not written by a graduate of the College," Truslow said, "we were forced to use it because of the technical difficulties presented by our first play, 'The Golden Fleecer.'" Fortunately, "Love Rides the Rails" seemed to fit right in with our original preparations for "The Golden Fleecer."

"Nine of Varick Bacon's songs for the first play will be used, and to supplement these, he has written nine more," Truslow said. The original sets and costumes will also be used.

Bob Bickford '56, who is arranging the tour, stressed that plans were still on a strictly tentative basis. As it stands now, the tour would start in New Canaan, move from there to Bryn Mawr, then to Vassar, and end in Northampton.

"Love Rides the Rails" is basically a melodrama and its plot somewhat resembles that of "The Golden Fleecer." The action centers around two swindlers who come to a small town and try to extract some railroad rights from a widow and her daughter. The two women fight back, and with the aid of the daughter's boy friend, are eventually successful in ridding the town of the crooks.