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...committee also chose as the Class Ode an original verse written by John M. Balbus '82 and Paul R.Q. Wolfson '82. The verse, which will be added to "Fair Harvard," departs from the serious for the first time in Harvard's history. Natalia Martin '82, chairman of the selection committee, said yesterday...
...John Balbus and Paul Wolfson have written about as enjoyable a Pudding Show as you could hope for--and, I suppose, if they had written anything different the show would have gone to someone else's script. But it's to Michael Schubert's music that Serfs Up! really owes its energy. Schubert wrote the score for last year's A Little Knife Music; this year's score seems far the better--more memorable tunes, more intricate ensemble writing, and a generally more subtle, less showy approach. His references are, well, eclectic--there are snatches of Brahms, the Beach Boys...
With McCoocy's soul up for option, the play must have its bidders: St. Michael, who make a brief but irreproachable entrance in the third act as a bright center-stage light; and Baron Nicholas de Balbus, the devil's advocate who attempts to corrupt the priest and his household. The ensuing battle between darkness and light is garnished with much theatrical hokum as lights go on, clocks stop, and furniture takes to the air. But despite the commotion, the final triumph of Good is a melodramatic inevitability...
...rest of the cast--especially William Harrigan as the Bishop--are able performers. Paul Lukas receives top billing in the role of Baron de Balbus, but this time the devil receives more than his due. Once he learns his lines, however, Lukas will be suitably suave in a part patterned after something Adolphe Menjou might...
Among the examples of early printing are a leaf from Gutenberg's Bible, lent by Philip Hofer '21, a volume entitled "Catholica" by Joannes Balbus, an edition of the "Book of Ruth"; and the "Nurnberg Chronicle." Gutenberg's Bible though not dated, is fairly well established as being printed in about 1450. "Catholica" is an encyclopedic dictionary printed in 1460, probably by Gutenberg. The "Book of Ruth" which is on display was published at Mainz in 1462 by Peter Fust and John Schoeffer, the former being the man who financed Gutenberg's edition of the Bible. The "Nurnberg Chronicle...