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Cannon means business"E-e-ek !" shrieked a woman in the audience during the murder scene in one of theperformances of " H awk Island," presented Iovember 3 and 4; and the play was stampeda realistic success. Howard Irving Young's mystery thriller is a highly entertaining comedydrama,and the campus presentation was exceptionally well done. Leland Cannon camethrough with one of the best performances of his college career as Gregory Sloane, ownerof the lonely island, who stages a fake murder, on ly to find a real one on his hands. P aulSelby made a good enough murderer to satisfy any jury.Playing the part of Paul Cooper, a man who is not afraid to tell his wife to "shut up,"Lloyd Riutcel got a lot of laughs-especially from the married men in the audience. Speakingof laughs, Bob Herrick as Anthony Bryce, timid detective story writer, drew the biggestlaugh in the show when he strutted out in the last act with the remark that, though hehad been wrong in naming the murderer, he had been right in concluding that a murderhad been committed.o far, the women have been left out, but they were grand. Margaret Moulton as thepert, quick-thinking little Sally R ogers, and Alberta Bergh Utt as the mysterious MadelineAustin, in love with the murdered man and married to the murderer, did splendid work.Riutcel, Margaret Moulton, and Cannon think up a plan to solve the mystery ... Cannon discovers one of his guests-dead••*