Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William A. West '49 will play the lead role of Dr. Stockman, director Ted Allegretti '47 revealed, while John L. Hedges '48 and Edward L. Benedict '46 were assigned respectively to the parts of Peter Stockman and Hovstad...
This is being done to emphasize the point that it is not the scenery but what happens to "people who sacrifice ideals to expediency" that is of real importance in the play, Allegretti stated...
...poll of the seven House secretaries revealed that the "squeeze-play" to meet the College room shortage had been almost completed but at a new compulsory number of 16 for all but Adams, which was required to absorb only 12 extra students...
...Voice of the Turtle" was a love story, a good simple play; "The Mermaids Sing" was a love story with complications; but in his newest achievement, John Van Druten has allowed the complications to overpower the story, and the result is not a good play. He is still just as good a technician as ever, and "The Druid Circle" moves forward with an oiled speed that is sure to keep you awake and lively for the full two and a half hours. Though threadss are dropped aimlessly all over the last two acts, they are line, colored, interesting threads, spun...
...Druten's first mistake was in trying to write a problem play. His most successful theme, romance, is subordinated to the handy role of a device to keep things moving, while the problem, modern education, pops in and out of the play, and is never resolved or even treated in concrete dramatic terms. Through the irrelevancies and the scenes of simpering young love, the main theme had difficulty holding its own. An aging professor, envious of the love shared by two of his students, tries desperately to come by it vicariously, gloats over one of their captured love letters...