Miss Dorothy Dilley, specialty dancer in the Music Box Revue, now current in Boston, has joined the cast of the Dramatic Club's spring production. "The Moon Is a Gong," which will be given Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday of next week. Many worried brows in the club were unwrinkled Wednesday when Miss Dilley consented to take the part of the Girl in the Red Hat, which requires competent dancing and so had the casting authorities scratching their heads. As the Music Box Revue concludes its Boston engagement this week. Miss Dilley will be staying over especially for the College dramatic organization's performances. To do so, she has been kind enough to give up a personal appearance at the opening of a Marcus Loew theatre in Pennsylvania and to postpone a conference with Sam Harris.
"I think the part will be great fun," said the pretty young dancer, commenting to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The play is one of the most interesting I have ever seen and from the standpoint of the cast as well as that of the audience, it should be great sport. My, you don't know what telephoning I had to do last night to make arrangements for staying over. Of course, I was delighted at the offer to be in the cast."
"The offer came about this way Miss Dilley happened to be present at the Sunday evening rehearsal in Sanders Theatre. As there was no one to fill the place of the Girl in the Red Hat, she was asked by G. E. Massey '15, coach of the Club, it she would fill in, he not knowing her previous experience. Immediately after he asked her if she would be kind enough to take the part for the Club's production, and gave her the prompting book for her lines.
Miss Dille, comes from Los Angeles, where she studied dancing under Ernest Belcher before making her first professional appearance in vaudeville there a little over two years ago. After six weeks in vaudeville, she joined the Music Box Revue and has been with it since.
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