Word: hecksher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were all for, but everybody deserved them. Except perhaps the scene designer, who made a setting for the show which was real pretty but which tended to slow down the pace between scenes as chorus members clomped around changing it from indoors to outdoors. The stage director, Philip H. Hecksher, could probably have helped the wait between scenes, but he did such a good job with the business in the scenes that it's hardly fair to carp at him for such a little thing...
...been shortened considerably; few characters have time to make any impression on the stage. Instead they seem to melt into choruses behind Tamburlaine, enemies foretelling his downfall, counsellors feeding his ego. Once in a while a reader stands out from the faceless crowd--Dean Gitter as Cosroe and Phillip Hecksher as Techelles bring some life to their parts. A few of the 42 parts are also noticeably bad; Richard Backus races through the brief prologue at breakneck speed and Jeremiah Tower seems to feel that Mycetes must be made monotonous in order to show that he is weak...
Last year the Harvard team won four matches, squeezing through the last two by 3-2 margins, to take home the national team championship. They did it without Niederhoffer, who was playing in the singles tournament; he reached the semifinals before bowing to Ben Hecksher '59 in four games. Hecksher went on to win the title...
...Hecksher is back again this year, but the pre-tourney favorite has to be Henri Salaun, the four-time champ who has whipped every top amateur in the country this year...
Salaun is the only amateur to beat Vic Niederhoffer at any time this season. Neiderhoffer spilled Hecksher in a Massachusetts "A" League match; he has beaten former amateur champ Harry Conion, the tournament's fourth seed, twice. But he lost to Salaun in the Middlesex Bowl Tournament over Christmas vacation, and again in the Cowles Invitational in New York just after exams...