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Satirizing young maidens rapturous over the most bohemian and "aesthetic" of poets, the play doesn't seem ill at home in the Harvard community. Alison Keith is a real show-stopper as the aging, but still amorous devotee of the pseudo-poet. She has a real talent for comic gesture and routine with just the proper bit of stylization, and wondrous to say, she has a very fine voice. Elizabeth MacNeil, play the title role of Patience, a much-sought-after milkmaid, sings well and liltingly, but her acting seems the weakest among the principals. Perhaps this is just...
Although the males in the cast carry most of the operetta, perhaps the standout is Alison Keith as Queen of the Fairies. Wonderfully arch, she carries off everything she attempts, even mixed lines. Though Elizabeth Peterson confounds none of her lines, nor in fact does anything foolish, she somehow conveys a less satisfactory impression. She is said to have a good voice, but I find it, and the seriousness with which she takes it, irritating. Her part, of course, will not permit the clownishness of the others, but still one wishes that she would consent to do mere Gilbert...
Mumford, the father of graduating senior Alison Mumford, used the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson as his theme in addressing the graduating class. "First of all I would recall the familiar doctrine that underlies all Emerson's work, the doctrine of self-reliance," he said...
...keeping with a Radcliffe tradition, Lewis Mumford, philosopher and city planner, will deliver the commencement address. Mumford is the father of Radcliffe senior Alison Mumford, who is an A.B. degree candidate, magna cum laude...
...limey sailor. At times the latter was slightly unconvincing, but his singing and a fine first act dance made up for any acting deficiency. Miss Petersen never could make up her mind what man she should marry and Loomis was mad as a hatter. Victor Altschul, Chester Hartman, and Alison Keith all added convincing Gilbert and Sullivan acting techniques to the production. Musical arrangements by pianist Richard Friedberg were superb...