Law Students Joke In Annual Revue

Horrors! The deed to New Jersey has been willed to the Third Reich. No need to fear-Harvard Pseudo Law Professor Indiana Jones has been called in to find the missing document buried in the stacks of Langdell Library.

That is just a sample of the riotous legal humor in the Harvard Law School Drama Society's annual fall musical revue, which opened last night at Pound Hall.

Called "Puttin' on the Writs," the multi-faceted production, which has a 1930 s theme, features original skits by members of the society as well as period music.

The 100-member society has been working on the production since March, said third year law student Melissa A. Plotsky, the show's producer.

The skits and songs have characters ranging from "musicians to prostitutes to unemployed to upperclass wealthy to students," Plotsky said.

In one skit about Prohibition, or rather prohibition of study aides at the Law School, Gangster Dutch Elm (Kerry F. Osborne) runs a black market outline-selling ring. Don't worry, the long arm of the law eventually catches the criminal.

While fingering all the loot, however, one gangster, who thinks crime pays, pipes, "This is better than business school!"

In another number, Craig L. Smith and Rosemary Fei dance a tango to Boulevard of Broken Dreams, in which Smith wears a shirt of silver ruffles. "I always dreamed of wearing silver lame, and not many 1-L's get the chance," Smith said.

Other highlights include impressions of Mae West, W. C. Field, Adolf Hitler, and Benito Mussolini, in several of the production's numbers.

The future lawyers of America also said there was a serious side to the revue. Plotsky said the company tried to show the hardship people endured during the Great Depression.

"It's entertaining, but we also wanted to give people a little bit to think about," Plotsky said.