{"id":268,"date":"2020-08-19T14:55:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/theatre-chronology\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2020-08-19T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T18:55:36","slug":"1943-1944","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/theatre-chronology\/1943-1944\/","title":{"rendered":"1943-1944"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Academic &#8220;years&#8221; accelerated during World War II to eight consecutive semesters over two and two-thirds years years instead of four, and most students on campus were Navy V-12 trainees.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Play Title: All-Campus Vaudeville Show [thirteen acts]<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author:&nbsp;<\/strong>varied<br><strong>Date:<\/strong>&nbsp;Sept. 17, 1943, 8:00 P.M.<br><strong>Venue:<\/strong>&nbsp;Washington Hall<br><strong>Promoter:<\/strong>&nbsp;Grand Knight Bob Hallein<br><strong>Stage Manager:<\/strong>&nbsp;not found<br><strong>Sponsoring\/Producing Organization:<\/strong>&nbsp;Knights of Columbus<br><strong>Judges:<\/strong>&nbsp;J. Earl Redden (Playland Park), Joseph F. Donahue (alumnus), William Richardson<br><br><em>Cast List<\/em><br><br><strong>Master of Ceremonies:&nbsp;<\/strong>(Marine) Dave Curtin<br><strong>Music:<\/strong>&nbsp;Johnny Boyle and his Victory Cavaliers<br><br>Acts included Gene Pechulis (singer), Ed Dunnigan (trumpet), Paul O&#8217;Connell (interpretations of Fred Allen, Socrates Mulligan, Frank Leahy, Jimmy Durante, and President Roosevelt), Brock Lynch (tap dancing), Dick Walker (harmonica), Tom Butler (drums&#8211;second prize), Ted Smironiotis (baton twirling&#8211;first prize), Vic Kulbitski and Larry Lynch (accordian and skates&#8211;third prize), Elmer Benedict (magic).<br><br><strong>Note:&nbsp;<\/strong>Because the show was open to the public, students were denied seats, a situation the&nbsp;<em>Scholastic<\/em>&nbsp;deplored.<br><br><strong>Source:<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>Scholastic<\/em>&nbsp;79:11, Sept. 24, 1943, 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Play Title: Ruddigore<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author:<\/strong>&nbsp;Gilbert and Sullivan<br><strong>Dates Performed:<\/strong>&nbsp;Feb. 9 &#8211; 12, 1944<br><strong>Director:<\/strong>&nbsp;not found<br><strong>Stage Manager:<\/strong>&nbsp;not found<br><strong>Sponsoring\/Producing Organization:<\/strong>&nbsp;The University Theatre<br><br><em>Cast List<\/em><br><br><br><strong>Notes:<\/strong><br><br>Source(s) Play Program, PNDP 76-SA-01<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Academic &#8220;years&#8221; accelerated during World War II to eight consecutive semesters over two and two-thirds years years instead of four, and most students on campus were Navy V-12 trainees.] Play Title: All-Campus Vaudeville Show [thirteen acts] Author:&nbsp;variedDate:&nbsp;Sept. 17, 1943, 8:00 P.M.Venue:&nbsp;Washington HallPromoter:&nbsp;Grand Knight Bob HalleinStage Manager:&nbsp;not foundSponsoring\/Producing Organization:&nbsp;Knights of ColumbusJudges:&nbsp;J. Earl Redden (Playland Park), Joseph [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3793,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":-1943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-268","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/theatre-chronology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/theatre-chronology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/theatre-chronology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/theatre-chronology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/theatre-chronology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/theatre-chronology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/theatre-chronology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/theatre-chronology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}