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...past two months, U.S. televiewers have been getting a drama diet with a loftier intellectual content than that of Broadway. The high-vitamin source is Masterpiece Playhouse (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC-TV), which began its experimental run with Ibsen's suicidal Hedda Gabler and ends it this month with Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. This week, for its sixth performance, Masterpiece staged a fast-paced, absorbing performance of Shakespeare's Othello...
...entertained by David M. Little '17, Secretary to the University, at a luncheon in Eliot House. John P. Coolidge '35, Director of Fogg Museum, described Munch as a pioneer in the modern movement who particularly influenced the German expressionists. His effect on contemporary art is comparable to that of Ibsen and Strindberg on the stage. Munch died...
...slow first act and two seemingly aimless ones following it expelled two people sitting behind me. These people missed a treat in the last two acts of Ibsen's great play. It is then that the characters, ideas, and comedy of "The Wild Duck" bloom, in some of the most masterful writing of modern theater. The acting parallels the movement of the play, reaching a brilliant climax in the last two acts...
Nine o'clock: For early shoppers, English 160, Modern Drams, (Ibsen to Tennessee Williams), is worth a look. The 44 plays covered make consistently interesting reading; Baker's lectures are informative if not very unusual. The course has never been known for abnormal difficulty (Emerson D). Another early morning enterprise--of incourse--is term only to auditors since it is a full course--is Mcrk's History of the Westward Movement, (History 162). The lectures are excellent (Harvard...
...since 1937, except for a year with Eva Le Gallienne and Margaret Webster running the ill-fated American Repertory Theater, Producer Crawford hunts tirelessly for scripts that offer "something different." Now on her schedule: a melodrama, a musical and a new Paul Green adaptation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, starring John Garfield...