Word: babe
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Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63 will read an act of his new play, "Peterkins," this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in the Lamont Forum Room. G. Carter Wilson '63 will also present an excerpt from his novel, "She fought the Good Fight," at the third in a series of undergraduate readings...
Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63, of Kirkland House and Rochester, N.Y., has been selected as one of four recipients of Henry Fellowships for advanced study at either Oxford or Cambridge Universities in England next year. Also selected were two seniors from Yale University and one from the University of Michigan...
...Babe is a winner of the Detur Award for high academic achievement and is a Harvard National Scholar. He is an editor of Comment, and won two drama prizes last year. He plans graduate study in English and a teaching career...
...middle acts, to be fair, are not consistently dismal. Babe, before he turned director and playwright, was the finest comic actor in the College, and the comic moments of his Councillors Eff and Gee are, (assisted by the talents of Timothy Mayer and Michael Ehrhardt), his smoothest drama. But there is too much mummery, too many blood red bubbles in the well and strange noises in the night, for the midsection to cohere; it collapses under a load of unnecessary mysticism and unnecessary explication which the Stranger (Philip Kerr) most represents...
...have no quarrel with George Hamlin's directing; its defects are those of a play that often drags. Unquestionably Babe has given most of his care to the role of Walter, and Richard Simons sees to it that his lines are not wasted; he knows how to be sufficiently kindly in his final derangement to make the switches of the pageant plausible, just as Griselda (Carol Schechtman) is sufficiently astute, generous, and conventional. The mystics, led by Kerr and Belle MacDonald, have nothing but ghosts of parts to feed on, which is a pity, for they are evidently capable players...