Editing Princeton Triangle Club (section)

===Budding fame and higher standards===
By 1910, the tour had extended as far west as Chicago and St. Louis; elaborate social functions were becoming part of the annual trek. With ''Once in a Hundred Years'' (1912–13), Triangle moved its tour to the Christmas season, again traveling as far west as St. Louis. The following year, President Wilson and the First Lady attended ''The Pursuit of Priscilla''’s Washington matinee performance; the First Family then hosted a reception for Triangle at the [[White House]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 20, 1913 |title=Triangle Club Starts for 2000-Mile Jaunt. Nine Performances of The "Pursuit of Priscilla" to be Given in Six Cities |volume=37 |pages=1 |work= [[The Daily Princetonian]] |issue=145 |url=https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19131220-01.2.12&srpos=3&e=------191-en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22triangle+club%22+%22white+house%22------ |access-date=November 19, 2023}}</ref>

''The Evil Eye'' (1915–16) had a distinguished pair of neophyte authors: [[Edmund Wilson]] (1916) wrote the book, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (1917) was responsible for the lyrics. Although he was never a cast member in a Triangle production, Fitzgerald wrote three shows for the club between 1914 and 1917. 

The club had been criticized in previous years by drama professor Donald Clive Stuart who asserted, on the front page of the Princeton University newspaper, that the plays were "too burlesque" and lacked novelty, especially when compared to theatrical culture at other Ivy League schools.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 4, 1916 |title=The Bugbear of The Triangle Club is Tradition, Preventing New Drama |volume=38 |pages=1 |work= [[The Daily Princetonian]] |issue=394 |url=https://theprince.princeton.edu/princetonperiodicals/?a=d&d=Princetonian19160404-01.2.8&srpos=4&e=------191-en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22triangle+club%22------}}</ref>

During 1917–18, a four-man Triangle troupe toured Europe to entertain the soldiers stationed there for [[World War I]]. After the year hiatus, the club became active again with a revival of ''The Honorable Julius Caesar''. 

The first post-war tour occurred when ''The Isle of Surprise'' was taken on the road during Christmas break of 1919. The Christmas tour reached as far as [[Nashville, Tennessee]], in 1922; the club presented a musical comedy called ''Espanola'' at Nashville's Orpheum Theater.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 22, 1922 |title=Princeton Players Here Next Month |pages=10 |work=[[Nashville Banner]]}}</ref>

In the spring of 1922, Triangle staged [[George Bernard Shaw]]'s ''The Devil's Disciple''. This production marked a milepost in the club's history, for its three female roles were actually played by women. Sets for this production were designed and painted by [[Russel Wright]] during his freshman year, marking one of the few times that a freshman was ever allowed to join Triangle.