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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The performance which, under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein of Harvard University, will be given at the Colonial Theatre on the afternoon of February 27, should appeal to the College community for more reasons than one. In the first place, Harvard University will, at last semi-officially, contribute by this performance to the celebration of the silver wedding of the German Emperor--an appropriate and graceful thing to do, especially in view of what the Emperor has done for Harvard University. Secondly, this will be the fifth time that Mr. Heinrich Conried, entirely at his own expense and with no profit whatever to him self, brings his Irving Place Theatre Company from New York to Boston in order to help thereby the cause of the Germanic Museum. And lastly, the selection of the play to be performed, Ludwig Fulda's "Jugendfreunde," is unusually happy and commendable.

The play might be called a jovial dissertation on marriage, its risks, its illusions, its dangers, and the solid foundations of its happiness and success. The action presents four couples, three of which are decidedly ill-mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while the court ship of the fourth forms an agreeable and pleasing contrast by the good sense, independent thought and true feeling which make the friendship of this pair finally mature into love. The plot is simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled in a witty and clever manner, and there is not a dull line in the whole comedy. It is a play of unquestionable artistic merit and a striking refutation of the charge of heaviness so often raised against German writers. Nothing could be more succinct or of quicker movement than this delightful and innocent comedy.

That Mr. Conried's production of it will be unusually well done and acceptable may be gathered from the fact that two of the principal characters will be in the hands of particularly distinguished artists, Herr Walden of the Deutsches Theatre and Frau Reisenhofer of the Leasing Theatre of Berlin, while all the other parts are taken by leading members of the Irving Place Theatre Company. KUNO FRANCKE.