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Traditionally, a man of the cloth, of the bar and of the classroom has been chosen to judge the Boylston finals. In April, David Steiner '54, general counsel for the University, Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change at the Divinity School and Mary Anne Schwalbe, director of admissions, will sit on the judgment panel...
Gregory Lawless writes in his review (March 8) of this year's Hasty Pudding show, "Tots in Tinseltown," that the only line he remembered as being offensive comes "in 'Feel Free to Take Liberties,' when Preston Folded invites Third World refugees to come to the United States because 'I can't refuse your refuse...
What seems to bring Tots in Tinseltown slightly above the horizon of mediocrity isn't really a coherent whole: the art-deco sets by Frank Colavecchia, especially the backdrop for Preston Folded's Hollywood home; a few of the costumes by Barry Odom--one eye-catcher was Henna Hoofer's feathery outfit for the imaginary movie number, "Pigeons of My Heart"; and Ronald Melrose's music, which goes so far as to include an anomaly of sorts in Tots, a serious lost-love song called "Minus Me." All this floats around in a melange of parody and self-parody that...
...interesting though, that after 128 years, it took a woman director-choreographer to make the Hasty Pudding Theatricals worth considering as a serious production, at least partially. It seems that somebody is responding to a line of Preston Folded's: "If you can't stand the bad taste, get out of the Kitsch...
...Kitty, Preston, and the rest of the chorus stand sweating in the spotlight as the audience applauds. The curtain falls and everyone moves en masse--despite the home-grown quality of these aristos, they do everything in a foreign language--to the bar. People begin looking for the Right People...