Triangle in Spain

The professional stage hands who accompany the Princeton Triangle Club show around its Christmas vacation circuit travel next to the locomotive in the "animal car." They shoot crap with the boys and are very funny. Several years ago, when the Triangle was playing Manhattan's august Metropolitan Opera House, one denizen of the animal car quarreled with one of the Metropolitan's resident stage crew.

"Listen, Buddy," said the Triangle stage hand, with a deprecatory gesture, "this here shooting gallery is just a one night stand for Us."

Last week the 43rd annual Triangle production, Spanish Blades, played another one-night stand at the Metropolitan. It is not as good as the best Triangle shows, but there is plenty of undergraduate funny business and a fake horse that turns around once to display a sign: I WILL SHARE. Young Marshall Dana learned during the summer how a ham Shakespearean trouper should act, and that is the way he plays Don Quixote, complete with suit of armor and greying spade beard. J. N. Foran ably sings an ably written tune, "No More Happiness." D. S. McMillan is a creditable heroine. Notably missing from this year's production is blond, birdlike, ballet-dancing Harry Dunham of last year's show--much to the relief of those graduates who were beginning to wonder if Princeton's female impersonators were not getting too good. The somewhat garbled plot of Spanish Blades is extracted from Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Don Quixote.

The somewhat feeble orchestra is the show's only real disappointment to Princetonians and friends. Itinerary: Rochester, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis. Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Baltimore.

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