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Lyman Bullard, who had scored all eight Crimson goals in its last four victories, was continually harrassed by the Tufts fullbacks. He managed only five shots and failed to beat Jumbo netminder Dexter Legg...
...mounting the opera for the first time in its 90-year history? Fair questions, which were not entirely answered by the premiere performance at Lincoln Center last week. Yet the Met's brief for Vespri contains any number of good points. Conductor James Levine and Stage Director John Dexter eliminated a half-hour's worth of ballet (wisely, considering the Met's declivity for dance) and edited the work down to three acts, running a relatively tidy 3½ hours. Then there were the principal singers: Sopra no Montserrat Caballe, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Baritone Sherrill Milnes, Bass...
...opera's oldest saws is that if you do not know what else to do with a tenor, put him on a staircase. In Vespri, everybody has been put on a staircase, which suggests that Director Dexter did not always know what else to do with his singers. The stairs (38 in all) rise gradually from the apron to stage rear and, depending on the scene, rearrange themselves in varying zigzag patterns as a good unit set should. Meanwhile, barricade walls slide in and out from the wings, prison bars float gracefully down from the flies. All this...
...Crimson booters lost, 4-0, Saturday in an overpowering game against the Bruins at Brown's Aldrich Dexter Field. The Bruins controlled the middle throughout the game, riddling an injury-weakened defense with 28 shots on goalies Steve Kidder and Jim McKenna...
...injury-plagued Harvard soccer team will try to upset Brown's Ivy League title hopes today when the two teams clash at Aldrich-Dexter Field in Providence...