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Herman Melville is both the strength and weakness of the play "Billy Budd." In transposing his novel to the stage, authors Louis Coxe and Robert Chapman (who now teaches English 160) have preserved the moral depth and intensity that are outstanding in Melville. "Billy Budd" is a play of more than average significance and complexity. But even one who has assiduously avoided reading the novel in order better to judge the play on its own merit, cannot fail to recognize the hand of the novelist in what should be the playwright's handiwork...
Robert H. Chapman, instructor in English, leaves for New York this afternoon for the opening of his play. "Billy Budd." Chapman, who now gives English 160, worked three and a half years with co-author Louis Coxe on the adaptation of Herman Melville's novel...
...Chapman began work on the play in 1947. It was produced in that year by the now-defunct Experimental Theatre in New York. Eventually rights to the show were obtained by the present producer, Chandler Cowles. Dennis King is starred...
...Chapman is an instructor in English C. He considers the preview performances as a "precautionary measure...
Nine o'clock: English 160 is under new management, but it still offers a good range of modern English and American dramatists. Mr. Chapman, whose play, "Billy Budd," is in the process of opening on Broadway, has taken over for Baker and will hold forth in the Large Lecture Room in Fogg. Early risers of a more classical bent might prefer to drop into Emerson F and hear Professor Demos lecture on Plato in Philosophy 102. Demos' friendly lectures are just the thing for a cold morning. Others who are seeking a course to audit at this awful hour...