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Hal Ulen, Harvard's varsity swimming coach, has been named chairman of the demonstration committee. He has scheduled such events as life saving and stroke instruction, techniques of swimming for the blind and handicapped, and competitive diving and swimming.
This last aspect of the program will include Vicki Brazes, high and low board Olympic diving champion, Joe Verdure, former national breaststroke champion, and Mary Hutton, a "water trickster" from Canada.
In addition there is some comic diving at the close of the first act which reduced the patrons present opening night to partial hysteria, and probably left a greater impression on most people than the legitimate efforts of a few minutes earlier.
Unlike the diving, the swimming could stand some improvement. It is essentially dull to watch, and the mermaids do it in a ragged and unsure manner. Successful commercial swimming' depends largely on precision and grace, two qualities which are not conspicuously present in the water numbers.
Most of the weak points of the Aquaparade of 1949 can be charged up to inexperience, and insufficient rehearsing. The show is fairly interesting now and has promise of becoming better than its ice and roller skating competitors. If the excellence of the diving and most vaudeville acts can carry...