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...least the tired formula of A loves-loses-regains B is avoided. Here, A loves and loses B but winds up happily with C (or, I should say, with D, since the current director Bill Gile has tinkered somewhat with the original script--to little avail...
...gives us a nostalgic look at 1929, the show itself attempted to give audiences of 1929 a look at a bygone era. The work was originally billed as "a musical romance of the Gay Nineties," and its story began in 1898. In the version at Brandeis, director Gile has omitted a military scene at San Juan Hill in Cuba, though the Spanish-American War is still invoked; and he has, at show's end, eliminated all reference to the celebrated murder of architect Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw only a few feet away. But enough remains to guarantee that...
Three Harvard players were tabbed for the Ivy League all-star squad yesterday, including outgoing captain Bill Kaplan and individual intercollegiate champion Mike Desauliniers. Ivy League All-Stars Mike Desauliniers Harvard Gilbert Mateer Penn Bob Callahan Princeton Frank Brosens Princeton Bill Kaplan Harvard Larry Gile Yale Ned Edwards Penn David Bottger Princeton John Havens Harvard
Playing in the spotlight at number one as understudy to Mike Desaulniers (who was away at an individual tournament), Kaplan dominated Yale's Larry Gile for most of their match, winning, 15-11, 15-4, 9-15, 15-6. Kaplan moved like a cat throughout the match, leaving Gile virtually no chance to get untracked...
...camp it up and play it as parody must have been temptations difficult to resist. It would have been equally disastrous to play the lines straight with out inflective italics, thus pretending that they are not unutterably silly, which they are. Director Bill Gile has settled on the very sensible alternative of restoring a comic antique so that it does not pitiably creak with age or smack of cosmetic modernity...