Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production of the HDC, as you might expect, lies somewhere in between. Its School for Scandal is more than funny. But in this new interpretation, Sheridan's acidity has been neutralized and while several scenes take on an agreeable mellowness, the play suffers. Director Edward Golden, evidently sensing that his most valuable property was Claire Scott's Lady Teazle, has emphasized the true warmth between that lady and her husband from the very beginning. Miss Scott has the ability of making Sheridan's most insulting lines seem a prologue to tenderness. Her Charm alone makes those exchanges between the elevated...
Contrast Miss Scott's great persuasions against the limitations of the HDC's Lady Sneerwell and you see why the play's balance has been upset. Mary Anne Goldsmith only now and then gives signs of the genuine, luxuriant wickedness which marks Sneerwell. For this wholesale slandering, the production looks to Elinor Fuchs as Mrs. Candour. Looking like a malignant Bea Lillie, Miss Fuchs deals in double-dealing, and very adroitly. Andre Gregory, as the hypocritical Joseph Surface, matches Miss Fuchs' high standard of lowness and holds his own in the fast company of Scandal's College...
Although the Children's Theater is affiliated with the Harvard Dramatic Club, the Thurber adaptation, to be given sometime in March, will be done without the HDC's help...
John Ratte '57, HDC spokesman, said the group would occupy the warehouse while working on the sets for the present production of "The School For Scandal" and might continue to use the warehouse as a permanent rehearsal theatre and workshop...
...HDC had considered using Agassiz Theatre as a replacement for Big Tree, but the warehouse has more space, a necessity for School For Scandal's large sets. Radcliffe regulations restricting working hours in Agassiz also helped destroy its practicability...