Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson Rugby Club goes to Dartmouth today to play the Indians in a contest which it must win if it is to retain hope for the Eastern Rugby Union title. The Indians will probably be the most powerful opposition the Crimson will face this year, but for the first time since the Berrmuda trip the varsity is almost at full strength...
Weld and Bowditch continue as the number one doubles team, and Wood and Gallwey, a new pair set up because Lemann and Vinton will miss the trip, will play second. The third doubles team is indefinite, with Pratt and Cameron, Langden Smith and Scott Custer, and Dick Chute and Denny Briggs as possibilities...
...team will play ten (or possibly eleven) singles and five doubles in both matches, although only six and three count for EIL standings. Pete Smith is at seventh singles, but may not see action in the doubles because Bob Schwartzman, his regular partner, cannot make the trip. Custer will be in the eighth spot, followed by Langden Smith, Chute, and Briggs, in no particular order...
Dunster House calls Duet "Two plays for music," apparently indicating that the nature of Arthur Kopit's dramas makes a special provision for more music than the average play allows; i.e., more than a few atmospheric preludes. Well, there is more music than that, but anyone who expects a quasi-operatic commentary on the action will be disappointed. Victor Ziskin and Thomas Beveridge (particularly Mr. Beveridge) have worked rather in the manner of the film composer: a few bars to concentrate the atmosphere during a silence, music for the dances and circus performances Mr. Kopit has thoughtfully provided; low-volume...
Music formed a greater part of the fabric of Aubade, a play which might conceivably have been composed as an oversize operatic scena. Mr. Ziskin wrote two longish preludes, a good-sized postlude, and supported the heroine enthusiastically during her moments of crisis. The style ranged from jagged dissonance (which was not too successful) to rapid-fire splashes of delicious French harmony, which Mr. Ziskin handles with great verve...