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Ralph Rackstraw (Joel Derfner) is a lowly sailor who falls in love with his captain's daughter, Josephine (Sarah Cullins). At the same time, the lowly peddler-woman Butter-cup (Jill Wietzner) hankers for the captain (Aaron Caughey). Neither of these longings, however, can be properly realized if we are to honor Gilbert's satirized British class distinctions, and it is this sitcom-like conflict which drives the play. Ralph professes his love for Josephine; she rejects the suitor her father has chosen and tries to elope with Ralph; Ralph is punished. Then, like a lightning-bolt from the Gods...
...Joel Derfner as Ralph Rackstraw sings in an elegant, well-projected voice with effortless transitions to higher registers. Even his speech seems melodious, as if half-sung. With arms flailing wildly about him, he gives his part some wonderfully bombastic melodrama. Jill Weitzner shines as Little Buttercup. She communicates complex thoughts with her facial expressions, and has a crystalline, resonant voice to match. Weitzner's movements capitalize almost instinctively on her physique (in the play, she is given enough weight to take down a truck). We have no doubt that she is ideally suited to this type of physical humor...
Several linguistics concentrators met on Sunday to discuss ways to inform faculty and students from other departments about the field of linguistics and their opposition to the formation of a committee, said Joel L. Derfner...
...concentrators are also talking to national linguistics experts by computer networks, Derfner said...
...surprised that this is happening at auniversity with the reputation of Harvard," saidGrimshaw. "They have some very good people."CrimsonJohn C. MitchellLinguistics concentrators JOEL L. DERFNER'95 and GENEVIEVE ROACH...