Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tree last night, the Harvard Dramatic Club, met to re-elect administrative officers for the coming trimester, as well as to choose a new four-man executive board. The HDC had picked 12 new members at an earlier meeting...
...HDC, founded in 1908, did not disband during the last war and intends to maintain its unbroken record of American premiers throughout the duration of this one. Starting with such charter members as H. V. Kaltenborn '09, Robert Benchley '12, and Charles W. Putnam '11, the club's roster has been brightened in the past 35 years with the names of George Abbott, John Dos Passos '16, and Kenneth MacGowan...
History has repeated itself in a way, for Putnam's daughter, Anne Cabot Putnam, Radcliffe '46, has already attracted Hollywood attention by outstanding performances in the recent HDC-Idler presentation of "Mashenka...
Names alone, however, are not sufficient to build a tradition, and HDC's real claim to fame comes from its unusual selection of plays. Always the first United States showing, the annual productions have occasionally been world premiers as well. Bernard Shaw's next piece on the slate, "In Good King Charles' Golden Days," has been given in England only once before...
...always content with the original lines, the writing staff has made alterations as necessary, and several revisions have been so successful that Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have requested HDC scripts...