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...finalists for the Boylston Prize Speaking Contest have been chosen from a field of 35 contestants. They are: Paul L. DeVore '63, Peter A. Flynn '63, Nathaniel Frothingham '61, Virgil T. Fryman, Jr. '62, David G. Gullette '62, Spencer Jourdain '62, Stanley F. Pickett '63, Phillip Stotter '63, William C. Taubman '62, and Gregg D. Wood '62. The prize winner will be selected from among these students on March...
Though the play was probably first given in a chapel, its tone is better suited to a tavern. Almost any place would have been better than Boylston Hall; my own choice would have been Cronin's. But Ted Morris, who directed the play (the program notes modestly proclaim, "The unnatural stiffness of the occasion is Ted Morris's fault"), Yoshi Shimizu, who made "all the sights for sure eyes" (i.e. the set, the costumes, and the props), and Bill Wilder, who composed "the heard melodies" transformed each of the obstacles which nature had put in their way into an advantage...
Morris used Boylston's shallow stage to perfection. He kept the actors moving in a fluid and carefully planned ballet. Every time a step was taken, an arm raised, an eyebrow lifted, one caught a glimpse of the puppeteer behind the scenes. The balance between the medieval and the modern was made most strongly by Bill Wilder's ingenious score, which shifted gracefully from twelfth century ars antiqua to the twentieth century twelve tone scale. Shimizu's set was a black curtain whose space was miraculously filled with a few flowing white splotches; his props were colored cardboard; and even...
There were splendid performances by Jacques Bersani, Ted Morris, Michel Herve, Jean-Claude Martin, Samuel Abbott, and N. Boylston. If you're in a holiday humor, I offer Le Jeu de Saint Nicolas my highest recommendation. I myself was celebrating the birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, as well as my own. If you have no personal holiday to celebrate, I recommend them both...
...Harvards swim the Yales today in a meet that has already caused a large brought consternation and rumblings of discontent to 60 Boylston St., a that will undoubtedly imperil several records and, among other things, decline the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming championship...