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...head of the commission, the President named Dr. Paul Budd Magnuson, 67, famed bone and joint surgeon, a crack organizer (as he showed in the Veterans Administration), an open foe of bureaucracy in general and of Truman's "compulsory health" program in particular...
Informed sources in both organizations yesterday declared that the possibility of a completed merger was enhanced by the fact that two recent productions, running simultaneously, did not live up to financial expectation. A plan for a joint production this fall, "Billy Budd," was abandoned over the summer...
...Last night a masterpiece was born, and it will outlive the lot of us," declared London's Sunday Graphic. Not all the critics were that ecstatic, but London seemed to agree last week that Benjamin Britten's seventh opera, Billy Budd, was far & away his best...
There were plenty of technical problems, including the theoretically fatal one of an all-male cast. Billy Budd, the innocent young sailor who represents good in the allegorical struggle with evil, stands in sharp contrast with the wicked Master-at-Arms, Claggart. But Captain Vere had to be "tidied up," made into a more central symbol of conflict: he knows that Billy was framed, but he also knows that under the Articles of War Billy must hang for striking Claggart...
...point last spring there was a rumor around the Square that the Harvard Dramatic Club and the Harvard Theatre Group were going to unite forces for the production of a play called "Billy Budd." The announcement was greeted with huzzahs by local theatre-goers. At last it appeared possible to encourage dramatics at Harvard, see several good plays, and not have to go to the theatre four times in a period of two weeks...