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Memphis Bound (lyrics & music by Don Walker & Clay Warnick; book by Albert Barker & Sally Benson; produced by John Wildberg) was first conceived as a swing H.M.S. Pinafore, later converted into an extravaganza about a Negro troupe who put on Pinafore to get their grounded showboat (the Calliboga Queen) off the Mississippi mudflats. But their version proves too much for their lady producer, and she bangs down the curtain...
Carousel has moved Liliom from 20th-century Budapest to 19th-Century New England, and renamed the swaggering, bad-tempered barker Billy Bigelow. It has also, to its loss, reduced his swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good...
Closing May 1, the contest, open only to the course's enrollment of approximately 125, restricts the essays to 3500 words. Granville-Barker will join Austin W. Scott, Dane Professor of Law, and Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English in judging the contest...
...result of a two week discussion of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" in English 23, by Winthrop Ames lecturer Harley Granville-Barker, the committee in charge of the Ames fund has announced a contest for the best student essay on any phase of the play...
Yesterday afternoon Companies F-G beat the H-I team, 44 to 22 in a fast, high-scoring struggle. Schacht set the pace, making 16 points for F-G, while Chuck Leemand and Dick Clapp boosted the F-G total by 14. John McGrath, Don Geeson, and Clarence Barker were outstanding H-I players...