The public performances of "The Buccaneer," the play of the Pi Eta Society, will be given in Brattle Hall, Cambridge, on Monday and Tuesday evenings, May 27 and 28, and in Copley Hall, Boston, Wednesday, May 29, at 8.15 p. m.

Tickets for the Cambridge performances may be obtained at Thurston's; price $1.50. Tickets for the Boston performance may be obtained at Herrick's, Clough & Shackley's, and the Women's Educational and Industrial Union; price $1.50. All seats will be reserved.

The following ladies will act as patronesses:

For the Cambridge performances - Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. George H. Palmer, Mrs. William E. Russell, Mrs. Walter I. Badger, Mrs. George P. Baker, Mrs. Henry E. Warner, Mrs. William A. Bancroft.

For the Boston performance - Mrs. Frederick T. Greenhalge, Mrs. Roger Wolcott, Mrs. Langdon Shannon Davis, Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Mrs. Arthur Foote, Mrs. Ernest K. Fenollosa, Mrs. Kilby Page, Mrs. John Oscar Teele, Mrs. Charles Albert Coffin, Mrs. Roland C. Lincoln, Mrs. Eugene S. Pike of Chicago.

A synopsis of the play is given below:

The opera deals with the doings of a piratical crew and this has given the young composer a chance to get in some unusually effective choruses. The solos are pleasing and one duet is especially good.

The opera is in two acts, both laid in the cave of the pirates. They are the last of the band of the famous Captain Kidd, so that the time is the last of the 17th century.

The curtain rising discloses the band of pirates engaged in their favorite pursuits of sharpening their weapons and drinking. They sing for their opening chorus, "We're a miserable gang of ruffians."

As they finish, Fr. Benedict, the priest of the band, enters with his usual chronic cough, which can only be appeased by a finger or so of rum and no water. He is noted for his power as a singer, and he favors the pirates with the song of the Rover.

The pirates greet this song with a burst of cheers, when a loud crash is heard and they hurriedly conceal themselves.

Upon the deserted stage then is hurled Darius Green, who has just been dropped from his erratic flying machine into the pirate's lair. He is not too badly hurt, however, to explain his identity in a catchy topical song and dance in which he sings "Behold in me Darius Green, a native of Connecticut."

He is interrupted in his search around the cave by the pirates who burst in and take him prisoner. He explains to his captors what a magnificent inventive brain he has, and describes his chief invention, in what is perhaps the liveliest song of the piece, "The flying machine song."

The pirates are delighted to find that they have captured a man of genius, as they are in a deal of trouble. Their late leader, Captain Kidd, left as his dying wish the request that a new leader be chosen by ballot, each man to vote conscientiously. All felt bound by their conscience to vote for themselves, so, after innumerable ballots, there was no choice.

Darius Green agrees to settle the difficulty at once by casting one ballot for the whole crew.