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Talent was not lacking for the HDC's production. But the best actors and technicians could not have rescued Marco Millions. As producer, and president of the club, Peter Shoup must take the greatest blame for the evening--although his was probably not the sole decision in selecting this play. One hopes that the cause of the Theatre Committee will not suffer from the infirm choice of a vehicle. The HDC has come too far to be undone by a single ill-advised production of a reliable playwright. Nevertheless, those who want to support the current example of Harvard Theatre...
...Yukawa) and three winners of Pulitzer Prizes (Composer Douglas Moore, Historian Allan Nevins, Poet Mark Van Doren). It is also a reservoir of talent that serves the whole metropolis. Such men as Philosopher Irwin Edman, Critic Lionel Trilling and Classicist Gilbert Highet are full-fledged city celebrities. Economist Carl Shoup wrestles with city finances; Historian Harry Carman serves on the Board of Higher Education, and a slew of geologists and planners struggle with the city's water and traffic...
...Shoup handled the mechanics of the adaptation skillfully, transposing scenes and localizing the action to a Paris hotel suite to maintain a rapid sequence of events. He makes his main points, however, with such economy that the audience hardly has time to become involved in the conflict before it is resolved...
Mathilda Hills and Robert Heavenridge played husband and wife, and both were excellent performers. Miss Hills spoke her lines with restraint and a touch of the puritanical which Shoup intended. Heavenridge turned in the consistently best performance of the afternoon as an understanding but slightly intimidated husband...
...play deserves no less flattering a label than competent, but it deserves no more. While it catches the Fitzgerald mood it has lost the Fitzgerald power. If Shoup's adaptation were a bit more full it might add depth to a performance that moves too fast to be digested properly...