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...Loeb's production of The Children's Hour seems to have a lot of promise. A visiting director, elegant and appropriate sets, and pretty stage pictures, however, do not save this play. Consistently wooden acting cancels out all flourishes of technical competence. Lillian Hellman's play concerns two schoolteachers whose lives are ruined when a spoiled and rebellious pupil accuses them of lesbianism. The highly emotional confrontations throughout the play demand good acting, and it just isn't there. But if you want to see for yourself, it's playing at the Loeb Mainstage, tonight, tomorrow and Sat. Tickets...
...Once in a while you get someone whose book from Widener is overdue, and we can't let them leave the library with those. I tell them to take it through the tunnel or hold it for them for a few hours...and once in a while some people get really burned up over this. Generally, though, we try to make as little nuisance of ourselves as possible. Most students want to get on their way, and I want to help them...
Just as it is difficult to figure out what professors do inside the University, it's well-nigh impossible to find out what they do on the outside. There is no record, public or private, of Harvard professors' outside jobs. The Business School, whose professors are encouraged to work in the corporate world, does require that they report outside work. Dean Winn Currie, assistant dean for educational affairs, said the dean of the Business School each fall sends a memo to all professors reminding them to let him know about their "outside activities." This information isn't intended to prevent...
Hellman's play depicts the plight of two schoolteachers, Martha Dobie (Jenny Cornuelle) and Karen Wright (Becky Stone), whose school for girls is threatened by the spitefulness of a spoiled, self-centered child who defies the women's sincere efforts to understand her resentment. When the child, Mary Tilford (Patrice Dabrowski), receives a just punishment for a series of rule infractions, she fabricates a tale that the schoolteachers are lesbians, convincing her grandmother (Cynthis Weinrich) to withdraw her and the other girls from the school. The teachers countersuit for slander fails, in part because Martha's aunt (Amy Aquino) refuses...
Nevertheless, the technical competence of this production cannot compensate for the actors' stiffness in a play whose success depends on skillful performances. Acting workshops and classes all over the country use scenes from Hellman's play to train budding thespians. For her play is a true actor's play, crying out for sophisticated character interpretation, development, and execution. It just isn't there...