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...Harvard Opera Guild has done as good a job as possible in bringing opera to Harvard, yet the question remains whether a permanent repertoire company can be maintained when the proper voices are, quite frankly, lacking. Unless outside singers are brought in, there are few operas that can be capably sung here. But whatever its future, the first production of the Opera Guild is a spirited, if imperfect, performance of one of music's great comic masterpieces...
High above the city, in the opulent aerie he modestly calls an office, the business executive of film and fiction does his skullwork amid trappings that would make Cleopatra's barge look like an excursion steamer. But in real life, the Executive Furniture Guild disclosed last week, the average executive suite is a dump...
...survey of 1,000 executive offices in more than 40 U.S. and Canadian cities, the Guild found that the typical layout is "about as inviting as the inside of a boxcar, features drab beige throughout, vinyl tile floor, Venetian-blind tapes of a too-dark shade of brown. The massive oak furniture is awkward, outmoded and impractical. No draperies. Several unimportant pictures hang from the wall as if they had landed there by accident. Desk accessories coordinate with nothing. About the best that can be said is that it is clean and the furniture is in good repair...
When Arthur Schoep, a seasoned campaigner at the New England Opera Theatre took the job, The Harvard Opera Guild began to feel respectable for the first time...
...success would mean much more than just proving relatively new ideas. It would establish The Harvard Opera Guild and its theory that opera has a place at the University. A well-done performance would also establish new faces in the local theatre. It might soon need them...