Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Executive Committee of the Harvard Dramatic Club voted two weeks ago to increase the number of plays performed on the Loeb main stage next year from eight to twelve. The Committee argued that this would permit more undergraduates to use the main stage facilities as actors, technicians, and directors. The Loeb has too long intimidated undergraduates, they said; most view it as the handsome plaything of a few near-professionals and theatrical geniuses. They insisted that directors and technicians who worked only on House productions should be given a chance to experiment with the main stage...
...goal of involving more undergraduates in the Loeb is a worthy one; the main stage, which has increasingly excluded undergraduates, was conceived as a student, rather than professional, activity. But no matter how well-intentioned the current proposal is, the Harvard drama community does not have the resources to put it into practice...
There are simply not enough skilled technicians, actors, and directors to put on twelve main stage productions next year. Even this year, directors have been hard-pressed to find casts and crews. Few of the actors in Loeb plays this spring came from the University; many were semi-pros from the Boston Conservatory, B.U., and the community at large. Technical personnel have been especially scarce, for the main stage demands a familiarity with staging and equipment which cannot be acquired in the Adams House Dining Room...
...Neill said the play was one of "tears and blood." The Loeb production is unquestionably powerful, but it is scarcely sympathetic. The blood is there, for the play's moments of pain are magnificent. But of the tears there is only the faint glistening on Mary Tyrone's cheek...
...other TIME story, Essay is the product of many minds: editors, writers, researchers, correspondents-and the experts they interview. But it takes one man to pull everything together, and from the start that editor has been Henry Grunwald. Three senior editors, A. T. Baker, Champ Clark and Marshall Loeb (this week's author), have taken turns at writing Essays. Among the other writers of one or more are Douglas Auchincloss, Joe David Brown, John T. Elson, Fred Gruin, Bruce Henderson, Robert Jones, William Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Ed Magnuson, Jason McManus and Robert Shnayerson. The principal researchers for the section...