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...Review solicited articles from Daniel Seltzer, associate professor of English and associate director of the Loeb, and Thomas Babe '63, a graduate student who has worked on the main stage as actor, director and playwright. Seltzer's article is a visionary discussion of the possibilities of university theatre; Babe's is a critical report on the evolution of the Loeb. Taken together, the two articles offer quite convincing evidence that theatre at Harvard is not being used with much wisdom...
Strangely, the spirit of experiment--which Seltzer considers one of the undergraduate theatre's greatest potential advantages--scarcely exists on the Loeb main stage. Babe's article suggests several reasons why this...
...Babe makes another point against the committee system: it has made drama political: "Without a specific policy about the relative value of kinds of productions that can be done in the theatre, without a policy above the level of collected and iron-clad prejudices, the building seems to me like a facility, a thing to be used by anyone with the ingenuity or brains or persuasion to get control. That is not really a free theatre at all, since talented people not adept at polities are going...
...doesn't work. As Babe writes, "strange distances" grew up early between student directors and Faculty advisers, and they have not disappeared. The uneasiness is symbolized by the fact that while Chapman says he is available to help all students who ask, several student directors (who unanimously respect him as a man of the theatre) say they would have appreciated more help from him with their shows. Some undergraduates believe that the senior advisers have made it clear that they are uninterested in student theatre altogether, save for the shows they direct...
Fame brings embarrassing problems to someone in Potter's position, and one of the trickiest was a letter he wrote that was published in Sports Illustrated, the Boston Herald, the Globe, and the New York Herald-Tribune. Potter had discovered that Roger Maris had indeed broken Babe Ruth's record of 60 homeruns in 154 games, since he had hit none at all in the first nine games of the 163-game season, and 61 in the last 154 games, a season no longer than Ruth's. A Maris fan wrote to Potter and invited him to dinner in appreciation...