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The beleaguered nation of Amboland welcomes a new recruit in the first years of its civil war: an innocent young reporter from Dubuque (Daniel Stern). This Candide in khaki enters the war as a neutral observer. He believes that "if I just keep my eyes open, I can understand the...
Thus, the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players have undertaken an ambitious project, for the usual pitfalls of light Gilbert and Sullivan comedy--convoluted dialogue, supersonic lyrics, labyrinthine crowd scenes--are compounded by the anomalous need for simple pathos. They have overcome the dual difficulties of this operetta in a cautious...
The article by Otto Friedrich on John Bartlett and the 15th edition of Familiar Quotations [Nov. 3] is delightful and informative, but it is in error regarding the "shrinking" of Shakespeare. In fact, a few quotes have been added to the selection. The larger format and more economical type face...
After 40 years, the play still provides a delightful evening because Barry could hone a comic line like a Sheffield blade. Director Ellis Rabb does full justice to that, but he scants the social subtext of what is, in some ways, a defense of snobbery. Without carrying Brechtian placards, the...
Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, said yesterday he was "shocked to hear of the death of this delightful and charming man." Freidel called Wolff "a brilliant scholar, a man of incomparable erudition."