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Here I am, center stage, in a college production of "Rope" at Hofstra University in 1976, playing the role of Sir Johnston Kentley, in the Patrick Hamilton thriller drama based loosely on the Leopold and Loeb murders.

Set in 1929 London, the story centers around two college students who set out to prove their intellectual superiority by murdering a classmate. They proceed to invite friends and family to a dinner party where the body is stashed in a chest which they use as a buffet table.

I played the murdered boy's father.

I remember that it took an hour for me to do realistic "aging" makeup. Dr. Mason, the director, explained to me that I was an obvious choice to play the oldest member of the cast, claiming that I had a more mature "bearing" than the other kids in the theater department.

I don't remember who took or sent me this photo, but I recently found it and thought that there was something of interest in it. If you have the time, check it out in the original size