WILD UNDERGRADS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 144, 15 December 1927, Page 7

WILD UNDERGRADS

RAG IN LONDON WEST END

THEATRE HALF WRECKED

(United Press ABB<sc'iition.i-o)pyrJgbt.l (Received 15th Decemfer, 9 a.m.) ... „ liONi>OSr, 14th We. After the annual " inter-Varsity Mfatch at Twickenham, in which Cambridge defeated Oxford by 22 points to 14 in a great game, the '^wity enthusiasts over-reached tbenwelveg ia ragging the West End of Undo * Amazing scenes of disorder occurred ia two theatres, and the manasera wer« obliged to lower the curtain an hour sfriX" h«rag, continued in th« streets, and several arrests were made. Undergraduates practically took possession .of one theatre and invaded \ho stage, so that it was impossible for the artists to carry on. The-orchestra and others m the theatre walked out after being attacked. Hundreds, of Katies tirJ?/* 60 'A r? grants torn" from the walls, and the corridors flooded, while missiles were, hurled 'it the stage. The management returned hundreds of pounds to patrons who demanded their money back. . Several women complained of damaged dresses, and the police were «ummoned and threw out several young meir in evening dress. ' After that wild scenes were witnessed in Piccadilly Ureus and Leicester Square, men clambering on roofs of taxi-cabs, attempting to force an- entrance to restaurants and night clubs, which hastily closed their doors. . ...