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Next on the HMSC calendar is a Gymkhana with the Babson Institute Club Saturday afternoon, Oct. 24, on the Babson campus in Wellesley...
...will succeed Mildred McAfee Horton, former president of Wellesley College, and Katheryn McNamara, librarian of the Harvard Graduate School of Design...
...graduate of Rockland College, Dean Kerby-Miller served at Wellesley before coming to Radcliffe. Prior to her appointment as Dean of the Radcliffe Graduate School last spring, she was Dean of Instruction for juniors and seniors...
Jerome T. Kilty '49 returned to Wellesley to direct and star in his adaptation of Shaw's Man and Superman, which drama critic Elliot Norton '26 has called "the greatest comedy of the 20th century." An uncut performance would last eight hours, and most directors simply throw out the lengthy "Don Juan in Hell" interlude, which is the most brilliant four-way conversation ever written. Kilty's skillful blue-penciling enabled him to retain about an hour of the Hell scene, which makes the last act more meaningful since it refers to the infernal dialogue specifically...
...Wellesley season wound up with an impressive production of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, directed by Athan Karras, a native Greek with considerable experience in his country's great classics. He presented a movingly stylized and austere show, using Gilbert Murray's not too satisfactory translation (Yeats' is no better; there is still need for a truly actable translation). Barry Morse, whose forte is high comedy, made an admirable Oedipus, but he could not plumb the depths of his final scene. Sydney Sturgess was badly miscast as Jocasta; but Ellis Rabb acted as cathartic a Tiresias as one is ever likely...