Word: play
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opener last week the Yardling eleven overcame a weak 25-man Tufts squad without much trouble, 22 to 0. Brown reportedly will field its best freshman team in the last several years, and chances are that Crimson coach Henry Lamar will not be able to play his entire squad of almost 50, as he did last Saturday...
...much shuffling in the backfield. Larry Repsher tore Holy Cross apart for 89 yards in eight rushes. Since then, he has seen little action and has carried the ball only six times. Also, during games, backfield men go in and out on nearly every play...
Because he was "always on probation or some damned thing," Jack Lemmon '47 used to play in Harvard productions under the name of John Orange. He has been acting ever since, although his eminently respectable Boston background pre-supposed a more solid career. "I starved for the first couple years out of college," he recalls. "That's why I haven't been back to Boston for fourteen years ... while all my friends were making money, I was making nothing, just waiting...
Lemmon's return to Boston for the pre-Broadway run of his play, "Face Of A Hero," has been a triumphant one. Between rehearsals and interviews, he is plagued by old friends who "know him when" and who want to shake his hand. "It's more frantic here than other places," he explains sheepishly. "After all, it's my home...
...students without professional aspirations, does it follow that no instruction or advice should be offered to such avocational students? I don't think it does. After all, they perform before a public which has a right to expect some competence, their work necessarily reflects credit or discredit on play and playwrights, their work is (or anyway can be) educational for themselves and their audiences (an acting group concerned only with its own rewards deserves no public), and students actors are usually, in name and in fact, associated with the college, which itself has (one hopes) some artistic standards. Furthermore, these...