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...Swedish teams regularly "provided girl partners for athletes who felt they needed their attentions." Or that Melbourne prostitutes at the 1956 Olympics "plied their trade mainly on the Village training track." Or that the favorite spot for "cuddling" at the 1958 British Empire Games in Cardiff, Wales, was St. Athan's Royal Air Force camp, where "strollers in the area usually ran the risk of tripping over somebody." Not that Dawn frowns on a little fun at the Games. "I'm no prude," she says, and after all, "swimmers have few delusions about the nature of the human...
...Athan Agnos's inept translation and Kalman Burnim's erratic direction of his largely amateurish cast, serve only to emphasize the weaknesses of the play...
...Wellesley season wound up with an impressive production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, directed by Athan Karras, a native Greek with considerable experience in his country's great classics. He presented a movingly stylized and austere show, using Gilbert Murray's not too satisfactory translation (Yeats' is no better; there is still need for a truly actable translation). Barry Morse, whose forte is high comedy, made an admirable Oedipus, but he could not plumb the depths of his final scene. Sydney Sturgess was badly miscast as Jocasta; but Ellis Rabb acted as cathartic a Tiresias as one is ever likely...
...Garen's job is highly competent, if not brilliant profound, and the same can be said of three of his actors: George Maharis (Green Eyes), Vic Morrow (Lefranc), and Athan Karras (Guard). The fourth actor is Harold Scott '57, and his Maurice is brilliant or very near it. Even allowing for his substantial growth as an artist since he first played the part, his performance is evidence that the best Harvard acting is easily at home on the professional stage. Genet has endowed Maurice with a characteristic movement repeated several times: "Maurice flicks his head as if tossing back from...