Dramatic Club to Give 'Too Late to Laugh' Here Soon

"Too Late to Laugh," a play with music written by Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40, will be presented in Boston by the Harvard Dramatic Club on December 14, 15, and 16, it was learned yesterday.

With New York as its theme, the play has many modernistic and experimental effects to portray aspects of urban life. Impressionistic scenery and odd lighting effects will dominate the production.

Collaborating with Freedley, Sherwood Rollins, Jr. '41 and Camman Newberry '37, 2L, wrote the music for the play. Each of the three authors have had previous theatrical experience. Rollins wrote the music for the 1939 Hasty Pudding Show, while Newberry wrote the muisic for the Hasty Pudding productions of 1935, 1936, and 1937.

Shows City Life

"In "Too Late to Laugh' I have tried to express in a dynamic manner the tremendous pace demanded by the city of frail flesh and blood," Freedley explained.

"The approach has been experimental in that the sets and music form the true theme of the play. The main story serves only as a backbone on which to hang short scenes expressing the vast and varied character of the people forming a great metropolis," Freedley said.

A return to the Club's policy of producing only student-written plays, "Too Late to Laugh" is the first play written by students which the Club has produced since 1935.