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...Sweeney Todd is like a mediocre Victorian novel. Filled to overflowing with weird characters and wild situations, the play nonetheless contains a large number of less funny scenes along with the gems. And the time element at last predominates. After the first two hours, as after the first two volumes of Henry Esmond, no amount of wit or slapstick can keep the audience from desiring a rapid...
...plot deals with the dastardly career of Sweeney Todd, whose crimes are committed in a new and grisly way. The victim is seated in Sweeney's barber chair, a lever is pulled, and chug, chug, chug--the infernal contraption hauls the fellow off to be chopped up for the filling of veal pies. Sweeney's activities affect a wide circle of people including a hypocritical parson, an asylum warden, a judge, various military gentlemen, a tubercular heroine, and other hangers...
Backs Ross Shiel and Tag Sweeney have been playing well in practice, but the Crimson will miss scrumhalf Ray Vickers who is ill. Although there was no scrimmage this week the team seems to be gaining coordination from practice...
...outset, play stayed too close to the Crimson end zone for comfort, but Harvard slowly forced Villanova all the way back. Team play by flyhalf Ross Shell, center Ray Vickers, and wing forward Lee Freeman resulted in wing Tag Sweeney's try half way through the first period. A successful conversion boosted the score...
JAMES JOHNSON SWEENEY...