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Running on their home course, Bennett Flax and Bob Conway wrested the lead from the Crimson's Walt Hewlett early in the race and strolled across the finish line together. Jim Baker and Dave Allen took third and fourth for Harvard with Penn's Radclyffe Thompson fifth...
Columbia has next to nothing. Bennett Flax, who finished third behind Walt Hewlett and Dave Allen last year, and Rob Conway, who took sixth place for the Lions, will save the New Yorkers from total humiliation...
Howard Cutler, as the poet type, Louis Flax, only whined and slouched and looked pained. And Patrician Hawkins made of Stella Dean no more than a chaste version of Louis; she even slouched the same...
...that Cutler and Miss Hawkins should necessarily have resorted to pecularities of style to hold the audience. But as their lines, played straight, are awkward at best, they might have tried to strike a few more sparks. Flax's rage never impressed me, his perplexities never touched me. Neither did Stella...
...might almost guess, Flax eventually gets Stella pregnant, offers, somewhat unhappily, to marry her, and is refused. At the end of the play, after the baby has been born, they do decide to marry, chucking their scruples in the last act of crisis. But neither their emotional estrangement nor their reconciliation are any more than indicated. I know, by the fact that he was folding diapers and that she was ignoring him, that Louis was being humble and Stella distant. But Cutler and Miss Hawkins never convinced me of their characters' feelings...