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...third offering of the current Shakespeare-Marlowe Festival, Marlowe's "King Edward II," Director George Hamlin has chosen to present not a poetry reading, but a play. His readers really act--they stride martially on and off the stage, gesture and turn to each other, sprawl about the reading stands, and altogether give us something like a full production. The result is a throughly exciting performance of a great neglected drama...
...quieter moments are introduced, begins too slowly and never regains its earlier momentum until Edward's death scene. The lighting is less effective than it might have been and is at one of two points puzzling. Music, however, is used to good advantage in the pageant scenes, and Hamlin's blocking almost provides the action itself...
...short, stocky Crain, known to his teammates as "Bull," has been a consistently strong runner both this year and last. A standout his freshman year, Crain was considered a member of the varsity's "Big Three" both last year (with Ed Hamlin and Ed Meehan) and this (with Meehan and Walt Hewlett...
...wound up in twelfth place. But then last year's race was thoroughly disastrous for the Crimson squad. After finishing second by one point in the Big Three Meet, and second by a close margin in the Hops, Harvard finished incredibly badly in the IC4A meet. Since-departed Ed Hamlin was the first Crimson runner to finish, in 25th place. Meehan was 35th and Crain 102nd, as Villanova's Vic Zwolak and Pat Traynor ran away with the race...
Bill Crain and John Ogden are also back in good form after being slowed by illnesses earlier this fall. Thus far, Crain has not been nearly the runner he was last year when he finished third in the Big Three Meet behind Hamlin and Yale's Bobby Mack. He was a strong third against Dartmouth, however, and might be able to rise to the occasion today as he did last year...