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...clumsy spoof of the television industry. Mrs. Biltmore St. Regis (Joseph C. Bright), owner of the St. Regis lipstick enterprises, is looking for a show that will sell her "lip-smacking good" products. An aide, Peter Papp (DeCourcy E. McIntosh), suggests updating Shakespeare, and a Harvard professor (Harry H. Lapham) is backmailed into changing the words of the Bard into television lard. The professor has secretly written a titillating account of Harvard life, The Student Body...
...major kudos go, however, to Mr. Lapham and Director Tihmar. Lapham's resourceful acting and acceptable singing compensate for a good deal of mediocrity and make all his songs successful. The other principals, Mr. Bright and Mr. Littlefield, have their moments, but not consistently enough...
Hasty Pudding Theatricals has announced the cast for its 116th production, William Had the Words. Bancroft Little-field, Jr. '64, Joseph C. Bright '64, and Harry H. Lapham' '66 will play the leads...
...Regis needs a director for her show and finds one in cutter Van Aspen, a young Shakespeare professor from Harvard, played by Lapham. She forces Cutter to direct the program by threatening to expose the fact that he has written The Student Body, a sleazy bestseller similar to Love with a Harvard Accent...
...Henry James, "I am comparatively a dead cult with my statues cut down and the grass growing over them in the pale moonlight." Dead he was, and despite a recent and wholly campus-bound revival, he is likely to remain so: his best-known novel, The Rise of Silas Lapham, will no doubt remain merely the second deadly Silas (after George Eliot's Silas Marner) of required student reading...