Word: burggraf
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...statement deploring the cancellation of the Dramatic Club's projected production of Thomas Wolfe's "Manner-house," William A. West '49, who was scheduled to direct the play, last night questioned the explanation advanced by H.D.C. president Paul S. Burggraf...
West quoted Burggraf as attributing the decision to the executive committee's belief that "Mannerhouse was not a play; that since the New York production of the play had been dropped, the H.D.C. would not receive national publicity for its pro-Broadway performance; and that the Club would risk the prestige it gained from its recent production of 'Adam the Creator' if it went ahead with 'Mannerhouse." The former H.D.C. director challenged the validity of these reasons...
...casting difficulties mentioned by Burggraf in the CRIMSON were those any director might go through when casting a play he considers of some importance," West asserted. "I certainly made no remark to the members of the H.D.C. to the effect that I believed the play could not be adequately cast," he added...
Casting and technical difficulties have forced the Dramatic Club to abandon its plans for producing Thomas Wolfe's "Mannerhouse," according to Paul S. Burggraf '48, H.D.C. President, who also said yesterday that the choice of an alternate spring play will be announced shortly...
Thomas Wolfe's unpublished play, "Mannerhouse," will be given its world premiere performance by the Dramatic Club early next spring. Casting for the production will start in the HDC's workshop, Big Tree, and is to continue through the end of the week, according to Paul S. Burggraf '48, Dramatic Club president...