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Babe, a native of Rochester, N.Y., and a president of Kirkland House, has appeared on the Harvard stage in The Alchemist, Rosmersholm, and as Malvolio in Twelfth Night. He directed last year's Drumbeats and Song production, the Pajama Game...
...days, when the rulers of Europe faced a balance-of-payments problem, they turned not to economists but to alchemists, who always seemed to be just on the verge of discovering how to turn base metal into gold. In 1709, Johann Friedrich Böttger, an alchemist employed by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, hit upon something almost as good as gold: using wig powder as a base, he produced Europe's first true porcelain. To keep the secret, Augustus shut Böttger up in a dank castle in the Saxon village...
TWENTY-ONE STORIES, by Graham Greene (245 pp.; Viking; $3.95). Any new book by Graham Greene, the British alchemist skilled at transmuting complex metaphysical problems of guilt and God into goose flesh, is a literary event. But Twenty-One Stories is also a tribute to publishing ingenuity. The present bouquet of Greenery has been compiled simply by taking a 1949 collection called Nineteen Stones, throwing out one, and adding three. The old stories are still able to trouble the sleep. The three new ones are predictably grim, and well up to the author's average-one good, one excellent...
Among resons for choosing this Spring's plays were a desire to encourage classicists--which led to Ajax--and fear of incurring criticism from outside groups--which caused the Faculty Committee to veto The Jew of Malta in favor of The Alchemist...
...physical defects, students point out that the much-publicized movable seats are somewhat disappointing. The so-called "theatre in the round" arrangement, used for the production of The Alchemist, is not likely to be tried again...