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...Marco Polo was liked, but the wasn't well liked until be made valuable and lasting contacts in Cathay. But the question Marco Millions also asks is whether a girl can be happy in life as daughter to a wealthy and titled Tartar (Kublai Khan). Unfortunately author Eugene O'Neill insisted on going beyond the circus, the soap opera and the spirit attendant to the School of Business Management, and when he does, his biting condemnation of souless materialism lacks teeth and interest. After a rather exciting first act, capped by Marco as an artless youth in the Khan...
...drag of Marco Millions is especially regrettable since it is the Harvard Dramatic Club's grand effort. Not wholly betrayed by its own ambition, the HDC almost manages to supplement the play's inadequacies with skillful acting, brilliant sets and costumes, imaginative direction, and a specially composed score. As a tour de force for the HDC, Marco is a definite, if quiet, success: the theatre group shows a good store of technical achievement. But Marco Millions is shabby entertainment for an evening...
Posturing in a four thousand-pound setting of wood and stretched canvas, the 60-odd members of the Marco Millions cast will go through a final dress rehearsal tonight on the eve of the HDC's spring production opening in Sanders Theatre...
...accent will be on size, color, and spectacle. Director Richard T. Heffron '55 has de-emphasized the air of Babbitry with which O'Neill surrounded the character of Marco Polo and made him into a Bunyanesque hero, and the production will be one of the most elaborate in HDC history...
Robert S. Schwarz '55 will lead the cast in the central role of Marco, with Pippa Scott '56 playing opposite him as the Princess Kukachin. Thomas V. Gaydos '54, who played Thomas Becket in the HDC's winter production of "Murder in the Cathedral," is cast as the Emperor Kubla Kaan. Robert J. Beatey '55 will appear as the sage...