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...BABE'S production of Coriolanus, on first viewing, appears less the product of an overall concept than dozens of ideas expertly paced and acted. Not all of the ideas work, and some of them clash, Sarah Gates's costumes, for example, successfully stifle identification with any given period: nonetheless, the combination of plebeians dressed for a production of Pirates of Penzance and aristocrats looking like refugees from Flash Gordon tends to add to an initial confusion...
...Babe's direction too succumbs largely to instinct and caprice; snatches of Brecht emerge now and then--in the cards which identify each setting, in the make-up on the plebeians, and in the declarative style in which Aufidius's servingmen proclaim the virtues of war over peace to the audience. But the production doesn't have much to do with Brecht and Babe just injects the touches at will...
Sponsored by the Harvard Dramatic Club, the season begins Feb. 29-March 9 with Ibsen's "The Masterbuilder," directed by Kenneth G. McBain '69. Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" follows from March 21 through March 30. Thomas J. Babe '63, teaching fellow in English and director of last December's award-winning "Prince Erie," is the director...
...Everybody in the country has gone crazy about saving something," grins a happy member of Biddle's staff. Two Los Angeles burlesque houses want recognition as cultural monuments. Sheridan, Wyo., has saved Buffalo Bill's favorite saloon. Baltimore is trying to protect Babe Ruth's home. West Virginia would enshrine the father of Mother's Day. In Jackson, Tenn., Engineer Casey Jones's trackside bungalow is a museum. And Hartford, Conn., has a renovated stable proudly boasting: "George Washington's horse slept here...
...side activities began with Yomiuri, in fact, after the paper's president, Matsutaro Shoriki, decided to bring Babe Ruth and other baseball stars to Japan for a tour in 1934. The tour was a hit and raised the paper's circulation by 50,000, though Shoriki was stabbed by an ultranationalist who took offense when the Americans played ball on the grounds of a Shinto shrine. Last October Shoriki, now 83, staged an exhibit of Tibetan art treasures and invited the Dalai Lama to attend. When he arrived, Red China got so angry at this "sinister activity" that...