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...Gershwin fan? If so, then the Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid Society's production of Lady Be Good is a must. Boasting music and lyrics by brothers George and Ira Gershwin, Lady Be Good starred the brother and sister dance team of Fred and Adele Astaire when it originally opened in the 1920's--big show for siblings, this. The musical premieres March 9 at the Agassiz Theatre in Radcliffe Yard, and plays Thursday through Saturday until March 18. Tickets available at Holyoke Center; for info. call...
...Sean O'Casey could imagine. Fluther Good and his friends are dead now, and with them has passed away so much that was respectable about "The Cause" in Ireland. It really doesn't matter any more which side you are on. The Catholic Provisionals of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) are just as bloodstained as the Protestants of the Ulster Defense League--so why bother to choose, when both are in the business of slaughtering the defenseless? The war in Ireland today is not a war for freedom, religious or otherwise; it is the tragic playing-out of a bloody...
Perhaps most important. Reid manages in a fine Irish fashion to carry a story. All the absurd trivialities of plot and subplot--with IRA goons, federal goons, British goons and even a few goons on personal retainer to the President of the United States, all doing their best to run each other over and muddy the storyline--finally mesh together in Hollywood style. Perhaps the setting makes the book more interesting than it really is: having set his story in Cambridge, Reid takes a name-dropper's perverse delight in alluding regularly to parts of the Harvard campus, which...
...Ira Wilson '79, who has worked for Southwestern the past two summers, said yesterday the company is not involved in recruitment efforts here...
...rock-bottom for Laurence Olivier; let us hope in the future that he accepts projects that will not mock the accomplishments of a heroic career. Maybe a legion of his fans could from a club to intercept and screen all scripts before they reach him, discarding Harold Robbins and Ira Levin in the process. But then again, in accepting the role of Loren Hardeman, Olivier accepted the challenge of a role unlike any he had done before. At age 70, Laurence Olivier still has enough daring to teach us all a lesson...