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Among the speakers is John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. Finley will deliver a speech entitled "The Inward Voice of the Classics" this morning. Howard Mumford Jones, Abbott Lawrence Professor of the Humanities, Emeritus, will also speak today...
Walter J. Bate '39, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities, will lead a panel Thursday afternoon. Bate's group will consider the importance of the humanities in the modern world...
...Abbott Theatre (so called because Mr. Samuel Abbott is the director of the Juno and the Paycock now at the Loeb) is not, to be sure, the Abbey Theatre; but even on its own terms its new Juno is curiously lackluster. Not that it's poor--how could it be with actors like Andreas Teuber and Kenneth Tigar (or with a director like Abbott)--but why oh why isn't it any better...
...Perhaps Abbott picked the wrong play, or at least the wrong author: O'Casey's prickly-pear mixture of the gay and the grim, the heartless and the sentimental is often awkward enough. But, then, Richard III is no pip and Abbott did well enough by that, and with, generally speaking, a much less effective cast. Lynn Milgrim, the Juno of this Juno, for instance, could not be better: business-like in her work, gruff in her joy, searing in her grief. Patricia Fay is an honest, spirited Mary Boyle, at once demure and uncompromising. Sheila Forde who appears briefly...
...unconsciously present, even when it is not being consciously discussed; were it not for the war, Juno would never abandon Jack. His own unreality and unconsciousness of the war should remain his own, so that it can be repudiated. When it permeates the play, as it does in Abbott's production, it only muddles the meaning and confuses the audience...