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Whatever methods of control prove best, most judges agree that the current courtroom anarchy cannot be permitted to continue. As Professor Delmar Karlen of the Institute of Judicial Administration put it: "If we don't have control in the courtroom, it is the end of the courts, it is the end of individual liberty, it is the end of government. It is that serious...
Number three man Clive Klleff dropped the first set to Sven Karlen before rallying 4-6, 6-4, 6-1. Dartmouth's Larry Himes, a dog-fighter with a natural backhand that goes straight up in the air, whipped Richie Friedman 6-0 in the first set. Friedman, a bit of a scrapper himself, ran out the last two sets, 6-2, 8-6, for Harvard's fourth win. Brian Davis (6) edged Roger Gutner...
When he shouts, the audience cringes at the distraught intensity of his voice, and when he sobs despairingly, they feel only pity. Where Camus intended Caligula to learn what despair really means, in the body itself, Karlen already knows despair; what he learns is logic, or the logic of logic...
Happily, the force of Wheeler's refreshing interpretation and Karlen's convincing performance is sustained by a mature troupe of supporting players. Barbara Colby is uncannily believable as Caligula's almost worn out but vapidly feminine mistress, and Jerome Raphel appears as strong, conscious and submissive as one could hope Caligula's ex-slave bodyguard to be. Only Joseph Hindy, who plays Caligula's naive, sensitive and ultimately rejected friend, Scipio, seems out of place on this fine stage. His movements are stiff, he slouches, and he swallows too many lines...
...Woolridge, plain and reserved, are unobtrusively fine. And realizing the financial problems of the non-profit Theatre Company of Boston, one can sympathetically accept the limitations of Mary Shepley's monotonously simple, cheezy costumes. It's a bit harder, however, to dismiss some lousy makeup work, most apparent when Karlen enters looking more like a trick-or-treater than a battered Caligula...