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...other male singer is Walt Winter, Swarthmore '56, a medical student with a West Indian background. As a singer, Winter is somewhat more impressive than Jones, but none of the three can be said to have an exceptionally outstanding voice. The charm of the show is rather in the overall composition than in the quality of singing itself...
Villainous Christians. In the 19th century, when Townsend Harris, the first U.S. consul, was working out the first commercial treaty with Japan, the main difficulties he met concerned religious freedom for foreigners. Persecution of Japanese Christians was modified somewhat in 1871, when a Japanese diplomatic mission to the U.S. and Europe was greeted by a storm of indignation at the recent deportation of 60 Christian heads of families in the Nagasaki* area. In 1873 the shogunate removed the notices posted in every Japanese marketplace and on street corners threatening death to anyone who turned Christian or harbored Christians. But until...
Under Duane Murner, who serves as both director and producer for the two plays--and serves very ably, too--an unevenly talented cast gives an energetic and convincing performance. Tom Griffin, in the role of the stranger, appears somewhat nervous; maybe he's supposed to be--I guess we all would, in that kind of company. Jim Swan, one of the College's most assured actors, leads the denizen crew with a misguided righteousness that very nicely constructs the mood for the rest. They are: Robert Schwartz, Richard Dozier, George de Menil, Travis Linn and Richard Fisher--with a special...
...They are looking for other work. It is very hard right now," somewhat unwillingly one of the trade union workers, a fellow about 32, forces himself to say. He lowers his gaze and nervously fingers his cigarette...
...says the professor, who is somewhat taken aback by this...