Word: hamlin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parker will build his navy from a nucleus of seniors Steve Brooks. Mike Livingston, Charlie Hamlin, and captain Pete Rogers, and junior Bill Hobbs, all of whom are veterans of last Spring's races. A number of last year's freshman and junior varsity heavyweights are now fighting for the open seats, and the spirited competition could help give Parker the three top rowers he needs...
...Chuck Hamlin, an Olympic athlete last year, placed second for Harvard in the novice-single-sculling event behind Phil Raymond from the U. S. Naval Academy. The only female rower in the Regatta. Gail Pierson, assistant professor of Economics, entered this race...
Unfortunately, the current Loeb production production under the direction of George Hamlin, never rises above being just a comedy. In an effort to flush out any and all possible amusement that Turgenev might have tucked away in the script, Hamlin allows his actors to employ too many different comic styles. The result is that this production is both unfaithful to the play as well as to itself; in fact, during a few crucial scenes there seemed to be at least three different plays going on all at once...
...Loeb (if one is to trust their publicity flyer) selected Turgenev's A Month in the country for their summer repertory because of its "contemporary pertinence." In its concerns, in telling of the middle-aged Natalia's (Joanne Hamlin) love for her son's young tutor Beliaev (Christopher Reeve), the play deals with quite contemporary themes: with the dominance that those who are loved have over those who love them, with the illusive freedoms men surrender in a futile attempts to capture other freedoms they can never possess. But in tone, it is quite the opposite from the explicitness...
Thankfully, Joanne Hamlin's Natalia is no Mrs. Robinson. Mrs. Hamlin is quite lovely as a woman infatuated by both and individual youth and youth itself. Natalia is more than just a victim of sur-pressed menopause; as Turgenev, who shares much with James and George Eliot, envisioned her, she is complex, distraught. Mrs. Hamlin, though, never searches below the sparking surface she creates. Her second act appearance on a reclining coach is too light; it does not help create a woman who--even if she had not met Beliaev--would have ended up in much the same desperation...