The music squeaks and the staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty .
To the caustic Santayana, Charles Townsend Copeland was a mere "elocutionist" who provided a "spiritual debauch for many well-disposed waifs at Harvard.
There he sat at table with a broken-down laboratory assistant, a lavender college student, a mousy-genteel kleptomaniac widow, a moth-eaten elocutionist, a stale bibliophile who .