Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pity She's a Whore has great possibilities. Intriguing, suggestive opportunities for passion and subtlety are richly woven into every act. Unfortunately, the HDC makes the least of nearly every opportunity; their production of Tis Pity drops Harvard theatre to a low level--an overacted, externally acted, embarassing, awkward level...
Most embarrassing among the other actors was William Graham, although L. Borden Brown, in his disconnected performance, came close. The whole cast suffered under flabby Elizabethan costumes; the HDC seems to feel that in the good old days, no one ever changed his clothes...
...finding a synonym would be difficult: "'Tis Pity She's a Paramour" or "'Tis Pity She's a Lady of the Evening" have neither the simplicity nor the zip of the original. It is too late now, but the HDC could have combined a tasteful community-wide promotion of the play with a provocative and money-making contest. Using an eye-catching photograph of the heroine and barring all English concentrators from the game, the contest posters might have looked something like this...
...ticket to the HDC production and get in on the fun. Fill in the last word of this title and guess the attendance figure of opening night. $5 worth of merchandise to the seven lucky winners. Enter...
...this is in the realm of pipe-dreams now. The HDC is unfortunately short of Idea Men these days...