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Charles Blair MacDonald, one of the pioneer American golf course architects, who designed the Yale 18 back in the '20s, was a man who believed in making a golfer sweat to earn his par. Yesterday, pars were few and far between...
...producing director of the Loeb, to come over from his home in Glasgow, Scotland to direct a student production of a play of his choice. In Glasgow, Havergal directs and manages the Citizens' Theatre, which houses a small, active repertory company. One of his partners is playwright Robert David MacDonald, who adapted and translated two plays by Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais into this Figaro, and who has also been a recent guest director at the Loeb. "We're always looking for people who can make a rare contribution to theater by directing a play here," Hamlin says. "I met Giles...
...shaped and re-interpreted, and the style is visually flamboyant, brazenly theatrical. Havergal says, "We do a lot of foreign work, a lot of Brecht. Not very much contemporary work, with the exception of Orton, Bond and Williams, as well as a new play every year by Robert David MacDonald...
...Adaptor MacDonald directed the world-premiere of Figaro in Glasgow; this is the American premiere. Is Havergal at all dissatisfied with the relative inexperience of college actors? "I don't really see much of a difference," he says, adding "Actors are actors, and these people are absolutely committed. At no point have I ever had to think: They're only students." Is he completely satisfied, then? "You're never completely satisfied, and that's nothing against these actors," Havergal says...
...survivors," said one jolly fellow who has dispatched, at last count, 332 odds and sods. They are a joky, well-tailored squad who, amazingly, carry no stilettos for their fellow authors. Some of the most famed and envied than-atologists are, of course, very rich: Ross Macdonald, John D. MacDonald, Robert Ludlum, Fred Dannay (a.k.a. Ellery Queen) and Ellin, among others. Britain's artful Desmond Bagley, who has yet to make much of an imprint on the U.S. audience, still clears $250,000 a year...