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...burden of bottling up Farnham will go to defensive backs Ed Backus and Rich Witherspoon, who have picked off seven passes between them, as Witherspoon scampered 53 yards on an interception return against Cornell...
Victor Garber, who plays Perdita's young suitor Florizel, is entirely new to me, and he's a real find. He is exceedingly attractive, the model of an earnest, ardent innocent. He speaks well (unlike Richard Backus last year), and exudes love. One could not ask for better. Richard Dix remains properly warm-hearted as the Old Shepherd, although he shaves off 13 years from the age Shakespeare puts into his mouth; and this year he has a new son in John Tillinger, who makes a droll dimwitted dupe...
...Florizel, Polixenes's teenage son and suitor of Perdita, Richard Backus is an attractive chap. But he is not at ease with classical poetic diction. One is constantly aware of listening to an actor mouthing lines rather than a person voicing thoughts...
...trouble passing for a lad half his age. He comes by his accent naturally, since he was born and raised in Goffstown, New Hampshire, which is near add not unlike the Grover's Corners that the Stage Manager so precisely pinpoints as to longitude and latitude. Backus' George is admirable all the way from awkward adolescence to bereaved husband. A useful preparation for this role was Backus' appealing portrayal, at Harvard's Loeb Theater in 1970, of the similar small town New England teenager who is the focus of O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! (a revival of this lovely play...
Meanwhile, Columbia hurler Ed Backus hurt his own cause. With two gone in the first inning. Leigh Hogan and Joe Sciolls singled. Center-fielder Leon Goetz walked to load the bases. Backus then followed with another free pass to Barry Cronia, and Hogan trotted across with the first...