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...maintain that it "has so suffered from the competition of Mr. Hunt's company [William Morris Hunt's is executive producer of the C.D.F.]...that it is doubtful that it can continue." When Mr. Durgin asked Mrs. Alison Ridley Evans, Group 20's manager, she said she thought her business had suffered "to some extent," but added equivocally, "It is hard to estimate how much." Yet Group 20's fine current production of Shaw's Man and Superman has evidently done excellent business since it has had to be held over an extra week...
...they reached rock bottom last week," my date astutely commented Tuesday night as we left the Tufts Arena Theater. And right she was, both in the statement itself and in its implication that Tufts has taken the first tentative step back toward respectability with the production this week of Alison's House by Susan Glaspell...
...outward event," there was one great mystery about her. To an even greater degree than was common among New England mystics, she was a recluse. This, according to the most popular, though by no means only, theory, was due to an early, unsuccessful love affair with a married man. Alison's House is based on this interpretation of Miss Dickinson's life, despite the fact that Alison Stanhope, the Emily Dickinson of the play, has been dead eighteen years by the time the play takes place. This is December 31, 1899. "The last day of Alison's century...
...left him no room for growth of emotional intensity in the final scene, where he finally resorted to uncontrolled hysteria. Richard Knowles as the reporter managed by his tone and facial expressions to disguise the fact that the reporter is not a slimy busybody but a spiritual successor to Alison. Probably the best performance of the evening was given by Karen Johnson in the role of the wayward daughter. If Miss Johnson ever learns to use her face and voice as expressively as she can use her body, she will indeed be a great actress...
Other members include Roberta F. Colman '59, of Cambridge; Julie A. Decker '59, of Moors Hall and Brookline; Alison M. Keith '59, of Barnard Hall and Rochester, Minn.; Anne H. Layzer '59, of Cambridge and Chestnut Hill; Alice C. Pepper '59, of Moors Hall and New York City; Nancy L. Proger '59, of Comstock Hall and Brookline; and Nancy C. Stein '59, of Whitman Hall and Winnetka...