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...second Lorca play at the Loeb this season, The House of Bernarda Alba, is a stark drama polished down to essentials. It contains the essence of Lorca's dramatic technique, though poetry is much less prominent here than in Blood Wedding, which ran on the main stage earlier this fall. Happily, the North House production of Bernarda Alba preserves Lorca's restrained tone; it is a remarkably balanced production of consistent good quality...
...aristocrat, she is obsessed with the duty to maintain the honor of her House by holding her daughters to eight years of strict mourning for their father. But as often happens in Lorca, the Fates, working through human passions, have decreed tragedy. The House which Bernarda must keep unstained (alba) is marked for ruin...
Baseball gets its full share of brother acts,* but rarely has it seen the likes of the two strapping young men from the tiny (pop. 218) Ozarks mining town of Alba, Mo. At third base for the champion New York Yankees stands Cletis Leroy Boyer, 25. At the same hot corner for the National League's revitalized St. Louis Cardinals is Kenton Lloyd Boyer, 30. By his performance so far this season, each could lay claim to a singular honor: classiest third baseman in baseball...
...their hand at professional baseball. Two more are on the way up. "Everybody tells me," says Mrs. Mabel Boyer, "that each of my boys turns out a little better than the next older one." On the chance that Mama is right, scouts from 14 major-league clubs have visited Alba this season, to watch Ronnie Boyer, 17, play a dazzling third base for the Alba High School Wildcats. Ronnie's batting average: a lusty .500. The scouts had only to shift their gaze a bit to see still another Boyer in action: Sophomore Leonard, 16, playing a fine shortstop...
...more interesting, less well-known selections Diaz presented were Sainz's Campanas del Alba and Lauro's Two Venezuelan Dances. The Sainz is a tremulo peice very reminiscent of Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra, but far more haunting and piercing. A technically demanding work, Diaz gave it a powerful presentation. Even more impressive was his performance of the Lauro Dances, which romp all over the fretboard...