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Stanley Bell (who is the eighteenth generation in a line of actors going back to a member of Shakespeare's own Globe Theatre troupe) speaks clearly, but he makes the Duke of Venice far too young. The Duke has a marriageable daughter; and, in Bell's conception, his daughter could not be out of elementary school yet. Larry Gates, Kendall Clark, John Colicos and Jack Bittner are commendable in their supporting roles. In fact, one of the virtues of this company is that everyone has good diction; there are no harsh vowels or dropped consonants...
...most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilization has yet assumed... The Byzantine Empire was preeminently the age of treachery." It has taken many years to overcome the stigma of Victorian moralism, and Byzantinology will probably never receive the vogue accorded Greek and Roman civilization in the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries...
...Plays presented, sixteen were major productions, fourteen were Theatre Work-shop productions (exactly half of which were given over to original student scripts), and two were concert readings under the aegis of the Workshop. The plays drew from many categories: ancient Greek, medieval morality, Shakespearean and other Elizabethan drama, eighteenth-century comedy, nineteenth-century Russian and modern European and American drama. The other thirteen items were musical, comprising eighteenth-and nineteenth-century comedy and modern American comedy and tragedy...
...varsity tennis team had to play only two-thirds of a match yesterday to gain its eighteenth win of the year. Rain halted the Crimson's contest with Penn after the six singles had been completed, and since Harvard had won five of the six, enough to sew up the match, play was halted and the contest will be regarded as official...
...yesterday's best matches was played by senior Jim Bailey. He was one up on the eighteenth, but lost the hole. On the nineteenth, Bailey shot deep into the woods, while his Yale opponent drove onto the fairway. But Bailey tied the hole, and won on the twentieth...