Word: eta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experimenting with a split showing on two separate football weekends. The first four productions, October 28-31 will end on the night of the Davidson game and the second set, November 4-6, on the night of the Princeton game. All will be given in Pi Eta Theatre...
...when the shell hit very rough water. Princeton took a small lead, but the Crimson closed again, and with a quarter of a mile to go, trailed by a few seats. Then, with both boats right at the finish, a huge charter boat--belonging to the Pi Eta Club-- swung out from under the Cottage Farm Bridge. And as Harvard--a third of a length ahead with ten strokes to go-- crossed the finish line, the charter boat swung between the two shells. Just missing the Orange and Black starboard oars, it forced the Princeton shell to veer...
These contrasting scenes were made possible only by the revolving stage, for the absence of wings and the shallow depth of the Pi Eta Theatre make the storage of the elaborate flats that would have been necessary impossible...
Herrey had already designed a revolving stage for use in Sanders Theatre, but the construction difficulties that would be caused by the poor stage discouraged dramatic groups from trying it. But the small Pi Eta stage was another story...
...words must be added in praise of the brilliant revolving set by Richard Higgens, of Anthony Herrey's settings and of Irving Yeskowitz's excellent production which does wonders with the Pl Eta's cramped stage. As for Coxe and Chapman, they have given their audience stimulating ideas, especially apt today, but the unreality and inconsistencies of their characters often make these ideas confusing...