Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although parts of Mr. Gordon's recent review of the Oedipus plays at the Loeb were flattering, both to myself and to others for whom I think I speak, please believe that I write this in a wholly disinterested spirit...
...there be no doubt about it! The concert reading of Sophocles' two great tragedies at the Loeb last night was superbly performed. By all means go to hear the readings directed by George Hamlin, and marvel as I did at the skill with which undergraduate voices bring back a Greek tragedian and two modern English poet-translators to an honorable life in Cambridge...
...close attention as you marvel, for though the rendering is flawless, the choice of style for the two readings should be carefully studied--and questioned. I've attended Loeb main stage performances regularly for the last two years now, and I find the successes of each performance becoming predictable. Hamlin has relied, as most directors have, on the experienced skill of the same star-studded cast. Last night, the cast acted with the same excellence they've always shown, and I wondered if the use of stars wasn't becoming a riskless formula which Hamlin didn't dare violate...
...chosen law, his famous father could have greased the ways a little. But Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 32, wanted to make it himself in finance. Make it he did. A vice president of Wall Street Investment Banker Kuhn Loeb & Co. at 31, he has now been elected one of the youngest general partners in the firm's 97-year history. All this after his Princeton graduating class (1954) made him its second choice for "least likely to succeed...
Culpepper's play will be the second drama by a Harvard undergraduate, and only the third by an American, to be presented on the Loeb main stage. The first undergraduate play was Thomas J. Babe, Jr.'s The Pageant of Awkward Shadows, which won the first Anderson award two years...