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Ballots, according to Mendy Weisgal '45, 1G, will list representative drama from early times down to the present and will allow voters maximum freedom in making their choices...
Fortunately, neither of the plays presented this season went bad for lack of acting ability. Ted Allegretti, John Lemmon, and others of the Harvard Dramatic Club have shown themselves capable of handling anything within the realm of reasonable histrionies. Mendy Weisgal, Marie Heath, and the company of the Veterans Theater Workshop displayed unusual talent in keeping a shoddy vehicle moving. Clearly, the faults that resulted in snarling press notices and red-scrawled ledgers lay in the choosing and not the acting of the productions...
Struggling against odds to reseue the production from Mr. Gerhardi were the two leads, Mendy Weisgal and Marie Heath. Weisgal raged eleverly on as Hector Rigoletto, male witch extraordinaire, Abelard, and Aristotle; but the real orchids must be saved for Mrs. Heath, who gave a delightfully British performance as Emma Seruple-Madison and brought the show to its humorous climax with a skillfully executed drunken laugh, spin, and fall...
...Mendy Weisgal 1G, plays the lead of Hector Rigoletto, a butcher who is mystically able to determine who all the other characters were in their other existences. Opposite him in the feminine lead is Claire Gilman, Radcliffe...
...Harvard has always struggled against great odds, dating from Professor Baker's famous conflict with President Lowell. The courageous work of the Harvard Dramatic Club and other groups cannot continue in the face of the careless indifference and cruel apathy of the student body. Give them a break. Mendy Weisgal...