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Festival of Contemporary Music--2 pm--Jordan Hall, Boston--The Purcell String Quartet and the New York New Music Ensemble--program of contemporary composers Fodi, Exton, Mendoza, Merilainen, and Hegdal. Info...
...William Exton Jr. '26 doesn't believe his class drinks enough. Exton said there were too many teetotalers in his class. "You've got to put it inside and master it," he said...
...Exton reminisced about going to college during the Prohibition. "We went to Scully Square [a section of Boston torn down to make way for Government center]," Exton said. "If you asked for tea, they'd serve you a terrible red wine...
Most actors play Richard as an invertebrate effeminate. There is not a hint of that in Basehart's portrayal. And this has the great virtue of making believable for once Richard's final scene, in which he disarms and slays two attackers before being felled by Exton. As he falls, Basehart manages to wrench the heart when he painfully recognizes his murderer and pronounces his name in surprised disbelief--a moment as touching as Caesar's "Et tu, Brute...
...silly, though, for the director to have him twice say, "Have I no friend will rid me of this living fear?" only to have this quoted at once by Exton, to whom alone Shakespeare gave the words...