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...CRIMSON also learned that Bentley has sent a letter to Joel F. Henning '61, former President of the HDC, telling him that in the future he hoped "a contest of this nature would never have more than one judge...
Members of the committee said that William Alfred, associate professor of English, had to be called in to pick a winner after the judges, Robert H. Chapman, director of the Loeb Drama Center, and Eric Bentley, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, found it impossible to reach an agreement...
Several students active in the HDC explained that Bentley and Chapman are seldom able to make joint decisions, and that "communications were particularly strained on this occasion...
Drama is not an accurate reproduction of life, Bentley maintained. It sees, at most, a part of life, and a story which seems life-like "reveals itself on analysis to be not life-like...
...Bentley indicated two traits which distinguish the drama from the novel. The first, he said, is that drama moves at a "higher speed"; the second, that the audience can see the actors "in flesh and blood." Since they are sitting in the same room with the actors, they can be entertained without having to entertain in return, an "ideal situation...