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Only if the Crimson is looking ahead to this Saturday's contest with Princeton should the Jumbos make it a game. That's already happened this year; supposedly weak Holy Cross took the Crimson into overtime after an easy win over powerful Cornell...
Miss Schechtman had to fill in for the ailing ingenue on 2 day's notice, and her performance is quite good, if a bit weak in song. Anthony Thompson, on the other hand, sings magnificently in the role of Rackstraw, but acted somewhat woodenly. Consequently, the first act duet, and the "Dungeon Cell" song, lacked the verve of the rest of the show. Here Sullivan can be blamed. The parts of Josephine and Rackstraw get the worst musical treatment in the score, and even then D'Oyle Carte players have trouble with them...
Veteran Edward Schmookler is a properly pompous Sir Joseph Porter. Strong in both voice and acting talent, he gets out the patter-song words clearly enunciated. Renshaw's solo to the moon in the second act is weak, but he amends it with a splendidly mincing portrayal of the "lower-middle class" Captain. Renshaw, Schmookler, and Miss Schechtman share the evening show-stopper, "Never mind the why and wherefore," which could have at least three encores...
...Crimson tennis team warmed up for its big match Friday with Penn by demolishing a weak Brown team 9-0 on the Soldiers Field Courts yesterday...
...Live. Sargent was born in Florence in 1856 to a weak-willed Phil adelphia doctor whose wife expatriated his family to a never-ending Grand Tour of Europe. He never saw the U.S. until 1876, learning his art in fashionable Parisian ateliers. This pursuit was largely a pragmatic matter, a way to live, as his friend and fellow expatriate Novelist Henry James would say. His style, tempered by Frans Hals and Velasquez, soon showed an ease of execution, joyous color, and devotion to manipulated reality...