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...first in a series of three Summer Folk Festival concerts was well received by a small but enthusiastic crowd at John Hancock Hall last Friday night. Bob Gibson, accompanying himself on a five-string banjo and a twelve-string guitar, presented a program of "off-beat" folksongs and "old favorites...
...Festival will take place in John Hancock Hall, Boston. The directors have stated that the program is as follows: July 10, Bob Gibson, "Off-beat" songs; July 23, Martha Schlamme, Israeli Music; August 6, Josh White, Blues...
Obviously this sort of script calls for desperate measures. John D. Hancock, who directed, has taken them, but they are the wrong ones. In his efforts to stir up laughter, he has employed books, scrolls, wineskins, spectacles, a rolling pin, a gavel, quill pens, a pitcher, drinking glasses, an earring, a pogo stick, and a live rabbit, among other things. If the rabbit could have been induced to misbehave on cue, I have no doubt but that this would also have been added to the pleasures of the occasion. The cast performs with commendable energy, which might better have been...
Ludvig's Holberg's The Healing Spring is under the tutelage of Mr. Hancock again. He has laid unholy hands on it, which was a good idea, since it has one of those comic opera plots which are usually best left to Mozart or Rossini or the Comedie Francaise or oblivion. Mr. Hancock has moved it--by the scruff of the neck--to southern California, and changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with...
Eliot House Dining Hall will house the performances, which are scheduled to run through March 1. Healing Spring is being done in modern dress, while the other two farces have a period setting. Co-directors are John D. Hancock '61 and William D. Gordy...