Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adams House Drama Society pushed every button, pulled every level, manipulated every winch and pulley that the Loeb Pleasure Palace houses in its bottomless toy box, in an immense and elaborate hymn to tedium. Peer Gynt fell--like the silly feathered pig which makes an agonizing descent from the rafters (while the actors stand and star, speechless)--with a long long, oh so long thud. (Three long hours...
...Peer Gynt," which opened last night at the Loeb Drama Center, will be reviewed tomorrow...
Almost three-quarters of "Invitation to Harvard" concerns athletics; comparatively little of the 20-minute film shows glimpses of the best lectures, the libraries, extra curricular activity, tutorial, or House life. In addition, the ten-year-old movie has a message from "President Conant" and misses scenes of Loeb, Quincy, Leverett, and other additions of the last decade. The sports emphasis is a left-over from the fifties when the University apparently had to overcome a "pink, bookworm" image...
...three pieces for public performance can be heard annually; the Matthew Passion here, and Parsifal in New York. Since we are now equipped with the Loeb Theatre, my proposal is an annual performance of Faust, in translation if necessary; at least the First Part, and the Second also in time to come. Both are done in Germany. Yale gave a magnificent performance of Part One in 1949, the bicentenary of Goethe's birth. They made one bad mistake; used a phonograph recording of Holst's The Planets, when they had to hand the rich fare of Faust music, Wagner...
Half the play is devoted to Grusha, and Grusha winds up as half a character. When Director John Hancock was analyzing her during the Loeb production, he charted fourteen "good" traits, which read like the Boy Scout Oath, and one fault (she lost he temper readily). Brecht's failure to elevate Grusha above generic goodness is particularly telling since he conceived the play in order to write a special part for Luisa Rainer, an expatriate German actress. His failure exemplifies the weakness invariably cited by the Communist critics: Brecht could create noble agitators and good proletarians, but never a flesh...