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nty" Flay That Will Endure
Despite Disregard By Publishers
(Editorial Note.-Prof. R. E. Cow-
den,, of the rhetoric department, has
written the following review of "Bunty
Pulls the Strings," which will be en-
acted Wednesday, March 9, by mem-
bers of the Comedy club.)'
As I turn the pages of the soiled
manuscript copy of "Bunty Pulls the
Strings" and renew my acquaintance
with the quaint speech, the shrewd
Scotch characters, and the amusing
plot, I am struck by the contrast be-
tween the lowly form in which 1 find
the play accessible and the qualities
of the play itself.
Anhour spent in one of our book
stores will disclose numerous vol-
umes of modern plays each trimly
bound to the publisher's taste in
green, or lavender, or pink; and there
will be hardly a play in these fine
feathers that does not suffer by com-
parison with Graham Moffat's little
Scotch comedy.
]Mde Long Runs
"Runty Pulls the Strings" should
have been in book form a decade ago
because it is a play of quality. Since
its long run at the Haymarket thea-
ter In 1911 in London, and its unusual
success in the United States the fol-
lowing year theater-goers have never
entirely forgotten it. Every now and
then in the casual talk of play lovers
someone comments upon "Bunty," and
the talk wanders on about her brother
Rab, and her lover, Weelum Sprunt.
The speech has much to do with
the permanent character of the play.
Graham Moffat sought to present mid-
die-class characters in the Scotland of
60 years ago. *He knew the Scotch-
vernacular, and the Scotch inflection
so well that the talk of the characters
runs on naturally and spontaneously,
and is a joy to hear. The speeches
grow freely out of situation and char-
acter; rephrase them and you not
only obscure the meaning but you
destroy the charm of the play.
Characters Are Lasting
Much more than the speech, how-
ever, does the play owe its characters.
I must mention Bunty, and Weelum
and Rab, and Tammas Biggar, and
Susie Simpson, and Eelen Dunlop, and
Jeems Gibbs, names only, until the
play itself makes them alive. Few
dramatic characters will linger in
memory - longer than Bunty. She
doesn't need a Maude Adams or a Mrs.
Fiske (if madame were younger), to
make her a convincing character.
She is here in the mlanuscript, a
wholesome, clear-headed Scotch lassie,
simple, modest, almost naive at times
and yet quick-witted and shrewd to
a degree that turns many a danger-
oous situation in her favor. Weelum
Sprunt, timid before the trivial re-
sponsibilities that are his in the or-
dinary affairs of life, always slow to
act, sometimes never reaching the
point of action, dumb when circum-
stances cry for speech, makes a per-
fect foil for Bunty's practical aggres-
siveness. And yet Weelum has in him
enough honesty and solid goodness to
satisfy an audience that Bunty is not
throwing herself away when she mar-
ries him. Rab, and Tammas Biggar
Susie Simpson, and the others are all
homely Scotch characters displaying
no small degree of the narrowness
and weakness and very much the stur-
diness* and goodness of the true,'Scot.
The playwright has not shifted the re-
sponsibility of characterization to the
actors but has made definitely traced
human beings living through the pages
of the manuscript.
Strings Pulled and Pulled
I cannot leave this comment on the
play without saying a word about the
last act. "Bunty Pulls the Strings" is
a very suggestive title, and one tries
immediately to connect it with events
of the action. In the first act there
are decided evidences that Bunty has
the ability to pull strings, and in the
second act Bunty has more than one
opportunity to pull and does so withl
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