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...small white-pillared building are shouting up at a 15-story Columbia dormitory, Carmen Hall. About half hold beer cans. Student heads stick out from every third window in Carmen and yell back. I am told that those on the ground are Jocks from "Beta" (the Jock fraternity). The Pukes in Carmen are egging them on. This scene has happened in altered form a couple of times before, I am told; and the Jocks are both serious and dangerous. To hear what they're yelling, we walk quietly (so they won't really notice) to within a door of Beta...
...Loeb production is a collection of musical, humorous and choreographical moments with little integrity. It dazzles the eye, but sounds (except for the spirited musical interludes) like the parody of Shakespeare's low comedy in Beyond the Fringe. Masters Puke and Snot, rather than a Master of Art is in charge...
...most fancy-free elves, are not bores; malice and eloquence save them from that un-Irish condition. All of them turn on Trellis, afflict him with more boils (64) than Job's, and provoke him to a robust curse: "You hog of hell, you leper's death-puke!" A bleak, black coda to the book-within-a-book says enigmatically: "Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop." Was Trellis mad? It is hard to say. Was he a victim of hallucinations? Professor Unternehmer, the German neurologist, allows Trellis "an inverted...
...there was a way to drink seriously, and a way not to drink seriously. Of three years at Harvard he had spent the last two learning the former, and was glad to distinguish himself from many of his acquaintances whose drinking was of the rowdy-up-and-puke sort...
John Kemp (Achilles) has plenty of bite and some of the funniest lines in the play. ("Puke much, gentry?) He does his family name credit, playing the simple fool to his hyper-sophisticated friends and cutting through their chi-chi with a fine sense of timing...