Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meantime, Barclay has scraped up four old lettermen and four other students who were playing well in the fall. These are the men who travel south on April 4 to meet squads from North Carolina, Virginia Tech, Virginia, and Georgetown...
...first-edition squad is good; when the playoffs for the team were held last fall, one of the men who didn't make it was Dave Gorman, junior champion of Cincinnati. But the group is still headed for a rough time when it embarks for the South...
...South, suh, there's no sech thing as snow, and people knock off nine holes before and after every corn fritter. While the Harvard squad has been swinging ski poles and replacing the turf on sitzmarks, the southern schools have spent the last month practicing on blossoming courses...
...these objections are nothing against the impact of the total show. There is so much beauty in "South Pacific," so much humor, so many convincing characters, so many honest scenes, and such a solid story, that even if it isn't perfect, it seems to be. You can poke around and find faults easily enough; but the show affects you so that you don't feel like doing it. In other words, "South Pacific" adds up to a great evening in the theater...
...there is nothing left to say. Except that somehow, the name of Joshua Logan has not yet got into this. As co-author with Hammerstein of the book, and as director of the entire show, musical numbers and all, Logan is surely responsible for a good number of "South Pacific's" qualities...