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WHILE PRINCESS IDA is justifiably one of Gilbert and Sullivan's least popular and least well-known operettas-neither Darwinism nor higher education for women are quite the burning issues they once were--this fall's production at the Agassiz more than compensates for its dated script. The score is delightful and the overall performance seamless...
...performers absolutely capture the audience. Tucker McCrady exploits the role of Princess Ida's father, who can not bear to be happy, to the fullest. His first solo, "I Can't Think Why", demonstrates his rare ability at combining excellent acting with singing. Mark Meredith, as Syril, the Prince's companion, steals the show with his solo "Kiss Me, Kiss Me", his only fault, if it can be called one, is overshadowing the Prince...
...comparison to both Meridith and his Princess. Margery Hellmold, in the title role, possesses the stage from the moment of her entrance--but overplays her lament after her women have betrayed her, suggesting some sort of pseudo. Wagnerian melodrama. Douglas Freeman, as Hilarion's father, and Melody Scheiner, as Ida's lieutenant, both display the necessary gravity and force of will. Lisa Zeidenberg and Debra Staniunas, in the parts of female undergraduates, add a charming note of whimsy to their surrender to the unfair...
...IDA TARBELL: PORTRAIT OF A MUCKRAKER...
...Theodore Roosevelt who gave investigative journalists the title of muckrakers, but it was Ida Tarbell who perfected the technique. Her father, a minor Pennsylvania oil driller, was nearly ruined by John D. Rockefeller. Twenty years later she settled the score with her scathing 1904 History of the Standard Oil Company, which described some of the robber baron's sharper practices and led eventually to the dismantling of his empire. But as Kathleen Brady, a TIME reporter-researcher, points out in a graceful new biography, the scourge of Big Business was not always bent on vengeance. Most of the time...