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FUNNY, IT SEEMS like yesterday when audiences viewed another comedy of manners in the Lowell JCR, last spring's production of Noel Coward's Hayfever. The Lowell House Drama society must like this sort of theater. Like Hayfever, You Never Can Tell has it's share of outrageous children, a stubborn matriarch, and romantic entanglements. But Shaw, of course, must add a touch of class conflict, feminism and a little political commentary...
...Noel Koch, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, recently left his Pentagon office toting an overnight bag and rode to Washington's National Airport. Koch breezed through three airport metal detectors and into the departure lounge. That was as far as he planned to go. Inside his carry-on bag, Koch had concealed a 9-mm handgun that weighs only 23 oz. and is made partly of superhardened plastic. When disassembled, the Austrian-made weapon, known as the Glock 17, does not look like a firearm. Only its barrel, slide and springs, which are metal, show up on airport scanners...
...short autobiography (Knopf; $17.95) wear no masks. Along with an engaging picture of Guinness himself, there are candid and almost always hilarious portraits of some of those he has met along the way to his threescore and eleven: George Bernard Shaw, Tyrone Guthrie, Edith Evans, Martita Hunt, Noel Coward and even Ernie Kovacs, who, he says, was "just about the funniest man I have ever...
Predictably, most of the outcry against post-Noel exams comes from freshmen. Hah. There's reason enough for preserving the status quo. As Friedrich Nietzsche once said, we only grow through suffering and affliction. This is why 'shmen have Expos, the mixer, vomit-inducing Weld Hall keg parties and the Union salad bar. This is also why freshmen, by tradition, suffer through a semester of doing all the work, only to get C-pluses...
...retrospective pastiche of Herman's work, featuring Dorothy Loudon, Leslie Uggams, Chita Rivera and eight chorines, which opened on Broadway last week. It also applies to two compelling new performances in plays, both by old hands: Rosemary Harris as a coy, manipulative grande dame of the stage in Noel Coward's astringent farce Hay Fever and Uta Hagen, the original Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as a practical and amoral urchin turned madam in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession...