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...magnitude that of a circus ringmaster. Director Stephen Aaron performs it with skill, and the visual patterns he creates on John Ratte's simple but handsome set are generally attractive. Equally skilled is the choreography of Esther Brooks. She manages to keep the can-can, a dance which often involves more effort than it is worth, from degenerating into chaos. Musical Director John Perkins unfortunately demonstrates a less certain hand. The orchestra occasionally wobbles off key or drowns out the singers...
Over-acting seems to be idiom of Leverett House theater. Although the relatively inexperienced director and actors work on three awkward bits of O'Neill with commendable vigor and theatrical awareness, their triple-barreled evening of drama is alive only slightly more often than it is awkward...
Some of the acting in The Rope, however, is a bit uncomfortable. John Sheppard works hard and often well at his difficult, mannerized role as the old man. William Searle, as his son, is fairly buoyant; his irresponsible sneer outweighs his awkward postures. Jane Connor assumes the character his slouchy sister with surprising completeness, even if her motions are occasionally static or self-conscious. By far the best person on stage is Eugent Gervasi, who plays her husband with the proud poise of a Greek statue. He is vitally alive and colorful whether soliloquizing or merely gesturing...
...task is not an enviable one, for Lewis' almost compulsive need to maintain a position of opposition and the rapid extremities of position he adopts, lead to a series of self-contradictions--and often to sheer absurdities--which must suggest from time to time that he was nothing more than a crank...
...very best college players in the East by overpowering John Brownlow, Presbyterian's highly-touted number one man, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2. Junta's big weaknesses were his netapproaches off the backhand side, and his backhand in general was not up to the rest of his often brilliant game. Brownlow, however, could not cope with the control and power of Junta's big game...