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...Harvard Dramatic Club cannot let pass unnoticed the comment on its Spring production, both editorial and otherwise, favorable and unfavorable, which has recently appeared in the columns of the CRIMSON. The Dramatic Club considers this comment as constructive criticism and thanks its critics for crystallizing sentiment on the policies of the Club, past and present...
...letter from the production manager of the Dramatic Club which appears in an adjoining column clarifies the position of that organization in relation to its spring production. He freely admits the desirability of the ideals laid down by critics of the policy of the club. But he points out the difficulties which arise on the way to their attainment. He admits, as has been pointed, that student authorship of the productions is desirable, but adequately explains why this has been so often impossible in the past. The other point made by the CRIMSON and several of its correspondents that emphasis...
...feel that the Dramatic Club has by any means departed from its traditional policy, which has never been notably rigid: on the contrary, the club in many respects has come nearer to its former policy than has been the case for several productions. The CRIMSON has already lauded the return to complete amateurism which "Close-Up" will introduce. After a lapse of several years, the club has again chosen the work of an undergraduate author. The objection of the critics must, therefore, be that the Spring production is to be a musical comedy...
...comedy and tragedy another form of entertainment known as the musical comedy which has invaded the modern stage to such an extent that it is considered by many to be an integral part of the drama. Is it not consistent with the aims of the Harvard Dramatic Club many of whose members will adopt the stage as a career, occasionally to devote its time and energy to producing this important type of theatrical diversion...
Secondly, the Dramatic Club has always considered with an eye to production the dramatic efforts of undergraduates, but it has been impossible to produce any of these plays which have been submitted in the last few years. Most of them have had little or no merit, or if there has been merit, the plays have not been of the kind which local censors could witness unblushingly. Since the days of Professor George P. Baker, Harvard College has taken little or no notice of the drama as a field of instruction until quite recently, with the result that the quality...