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...Brown at Harvard" is the play picked by the Dramatic Club for its annual spring production. This fact was announced last night by Mr. H. W. L. Dana '03, in his speech at the open meeting of the Dramatic Club...
...Although it has been the policy of the Dramatic Club since the war to give plays from foreign countries which had never been produced in America before, the Executive Committee of the Club has decided to make a temporary deviation from this policy," said Mr. Dana, who has been a close follower of the Dramatic Club's work, and instrumental in its choice of plays for several years. "This year they are going to try a revival, the widely known "Brown at Harvard," which created such a furor at the time of its first production, twenty years ago. This play...
...Dana went on to describe at great length the riot of the first night, during which the actors were driven from the stage by the students who disapproved of the play's representation of Harvard life. He also read several selections from the play itself which showed its satirization of Harvard men and customs. The play is broad and farcical in its tone and offers great possibilities to its present producers for parody on current Harvard life, as well as on the life of the much discussed "gay nineties...
After Mr. Dana's speech, C. H. Johnston '27, President of the Club, gave a brief outline of the various departments and introduced the departmental heads who outlined the work for this spring...
With his educational work Mr. Dana has combined an active interest in the modern drama. He has been closely associated with the progress of the Dramatic Club during the last few years and helped to pick the three plays which were tried out by the three plays which were tried out by the Dramatic Club and which are now running on Broadway...