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...were. Certainly Foley does not give the much help. The play moves from topic to topic, from joke to joke. No pattern really emerges. The only development necessary is that the girl get gradually drunk enough to pass out immediately after announcing she will sleep with the boy. But Guzzetti might have had Gebow and Miss Wilson try something, if only to give the play a little more coherence...
...think of one slant, in fact, that the text would probably justify. Guzzetti might have made the girl something older than the boy, inclined to drink too much, and cherishing an image of herself as a sensitive young thing that is wrong by about eight years. She is, after all, a "pretend person," and her reference to herself as a Tennessee Williams heroine who "can't stand anything vulgar" might have been followed up. The boy, a nervous and disillusioned "truth person," who does not recognize her need to be seduced, might have been portrayed as a good deal less...
...pairing this play with Three A.M., Guzzetti decided it would be interesting to use the same actors in both plays. It certainly is, and provides an excellent example of the educational value of a theater like the Ex. Gebow and Miss Wilson had to play characters much different from those in Foley's play on almost an identical set, to the same audience, and after only a twenty minute intermission. In the process they gave striking evidence of the manifold means of characterization...
...work, which might be summarized in the playwright's own words, printed on the program: "Whoever understands the game can no longer fool himself, but if you cannot fool yourself, you can no longer derive an enjoyment or pleasure from life. So it goes." I am not sure how Guzzetti might have better elucidated this point, whether in his director his management of the special effects. His production certainly was ingenious, however, considering the Ex's tiny budget...
...Harvard winners are: Richard H. Grossman '64, of Lowell House and Beverly Hills, Calif; Alfred F. Guzzetti '64, of Kirkland House and Philadelphia, Pa.; and James A. Shapiro '64, of Leverett House and Chicago, Ill. The fourth winner, Sanford D. Greenberg, of 19 Wendell St., Cambridge, and Buffalo, N.Y., is a second-year government student at the Graduate School...