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Cast and Plot of Delta Upsilon Play

The Harvard chapter of the Delta Upsilon fraternity will present for its annual play "The Merry Devil of Edmonton" a comedy in five acts attributed to Shakspere. There will be a graduate performance on Saturday, March 12 and the following public performances: Monday and Tuesday, March 14 and 15 respectively, in Brattle Hall, Cambridge; Thursday, March 17, in Copley Hall, Boston; Saturday, March 19 in "The Barn," Wellesley. Tickets at $1.50 and $1 are on sale at Herrick's in Boston, and in Cambridge at the branch office of the Harvard Co-operative Society or from K. McR. Clark '11, Russell 1. The cast: Sir Arthur Clare,  G. S. Deming '10 Sir Richard Mounchensey,  W. R. Ohler '10 Sir Ralph Jerningham,  T. S. Kenyon '11 Harry Clare,  H. D. Barton '11 Raymond Mounchensey,  P. Snedeker '11 Frank Jerningham,  R. H. Holt '11 Peter Fabell, the Merry Devil of Edmonton,  F. M. Eliot '11 Coreb, a spirit,  H. P. Fowler '10 Blague, the host,  O. W. Haussermann '12 Sir John, a priest,  R. C. Benchley '12 Banks, a miller of Waltham,  R. D. Whittemore '13 Smug the Smith,  H. W. Miller '12 Sexton,  K. McR. Clark '11 Bilbo,  R. F. Duncan '12 Brian,  W. R. Ohler '10 Ralph, Brian's man,  P. Lieder '10 Friar Hildersham,  H. P. Fowler '10 Benedick,  B. Beaman '13 Chamberlain,  K. McR. Clark '11 Lady Dorcas Clare,  F. H. Cooke '10 Millicent, her daughter,  J. B. Munn '12 Prioress of Cheston Nunnery,  C. Ernst '12 Nuns and Attendants.

Plot of the Play.

A brief synopsis of the action of the play is as follows:

Sir Arthur Clare forbids his daughter, Millicent, to marry the lover of her childhood, Raymond Mounchensey because the latter has had a reversal of fortune and picks out Frank Jerningham as a better match. Jerningham is, however, a true friend of Raymond and, when Millicent is sent to a convent to forget her old love, aids Mounchensey in his attempts to steal the girl away. The merry Devil confounds the pursuing father in the forest and thus helps the young couple to escape. Forgiveness and marriage bring the episode to a close. Though the devil hardly comes into contact with the characters he is, nevertheless, the controlling force throughout the play.

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