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...prolonged embarrassment that was relieved only by the emergence of two stage hands who pushed the Austin on its weary way. The actors, and especially the taxi driver, George Bishop, heroically covered up this unavoidable accident, but the outcome merely indicated a transferral of emphasis from Shaw to Wellesley. This in turn was followed by a totally extraneous pantomine in which Eliza retired for the night, to a background of American ragtime...
...other evils of the first act were also technical, and secondarily dramatic. Shaw's Pygmalion contains five short and concise acts. This structure was deemed inconvenient by the Wellesley group, and so the play was aborted into one long act and two short ones. The effect of this was to drag out the woe-filled first act to the point of boredom. The Players tried to make up for this in a superbly done second act, and thought to leave the audience with a good going-home impression with the third. A favorable word should be added, though...
Midway in World War II a slight, intense Chinese woman delivered to the U.S. Congress a memorable plea that turned out years later to have been a fateful warning. She was Shanghai-born, Wellesley-educated (class of '17) Mme. Chiang Kaishek, First Lady of Free China. Her plea-lackadaisically met-was for more U.S. help for China to stave off disaster. One day last week Mme. Chiang, back in the U.S. from Formosa for medical checkups, went to Ann Arbor to accept an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Michigan, there delivered another timely warning that...
...play will star Nadine Duwez of Wellesley, who starred in a production of the drama there this year. Other starring roles will be played by Earle Edgerton '56 as the Chorus, and Elias Kulukundis '59 as Creon. Also in the cast are Sid Davis, Edgar Walsh '59, Owen Quattlebaum, Mary Kass, and Ruth Roberts...
...Berkshire Music Festival, Tanglewood, the weekend of July 25-27. The Summer School will arrange bus transportation, lodging, tickets for all events, and swimming privileges for a package fee of $28. Trips will also be planned to concerts at Castle Hill (Ipswich) and the Theatre-on-the-Green (Wellesley). If these appeal to your whim, pay a small visit to Mrs. Mel Clouser in Grays 2 for reservations...