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...matter what is going on at Caltech, competition is the order of the day-everywhere, that is, except possibly on the gridiron. There, Coach Bert LaBrucherie, who once led U.C.L.A. to the Rose Bowl and later got thrown out because he failed to make it a habit, rules one of the oddest squads in the history of U.S. football. Though the boys play hard, they have cheerfully lost 25 games in a row. At one time, when they piled up a losing score of 12-18 against their archrival Occidental, a local paper headlined the news: CALTECH THROWS SCARE INTO...
...opera represents a courtroom trial in the afterworld, in which the newly dead Roman general Lucullus pleads his case for admission to the Elysian Fields. The libretto, originally written as a radio play in 1936, is by Germany's Red poet Bert (ThreePenny Opera) Brecht, but its only ideological message is antimili-tarism (the Communists condemned the text in 1951 as too "unpolitical"). In a stunning setting of blocks and planes, Lucullus faces a jury of five pale shades: courtesan, teacher, baker, farmer and fishwife. His character witnesses are stone-relief figures from the frieze that decorates his tomb...
...chief problem in talking about the Three-penny Opera at Lowell House in the days to come will be the choice of adjectives. "Brilliant" pretty well covers the production, but no one word is enough. Kurt Weill and Bert Brecht's composition is also beautiful and funny and splendid. A greatness of the opera lies in the fact that it is contrapuntally ugly and sad and tawdry. It is the grinning beggar on the street who wants to amuse but gets a raw pleasure from turning his check to show scars or festering gashes...
...traditional goal. Yet, in 1920 there began a German theatrical group which longed to hear that they had killed the realism, chattered the illusion, and had created false if not impossible situations. These were the impressionists of the Epic Staging School, led by director Erwin Piscator and writer Bert Brecht...
...third time since Bert Haines retired in 1952 there is a new varsity 150-pound-crew coach at Newell Boat House...