Word: hdc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late 60s--even though the bi-annual Phyllis Anderson prize for the best original undergraduate drama is a choice of either $500 towards publication or the play being performed on the Mainstage--but no one can explain it. Because of the hyper-secrecy of past Harvard Dramatic Club (HDC) boards, the present board and members have no idea whether applications for original works to be produced on the mainstage have been consistently rejected over the past five years, or if simply no one has applied...
...correct a misstatement in your news article on the recent Harvard Dramatic Club elections (Crimson, February 25, 1974): Karen Gordon is not "only the second woman to occupy the presidency" of the HDC. She is the fourth. Honor Moore (1966-1967), Francine Stone (1967-1968) and Eleanor V. Lindsay (1970-1971) are her predecessors. Arthur Friedman
PLANS for an arts festival were initiated even before school began this year. Instigators extraordinaires were F. Colin Cabot '72, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and fellow HDC board members Louise (Weezy) Waldstein '72 and Jon Miller '72. The three foregathered on September 7 at their favorite hangout, the Ha'penny Pub, to pool their ideas. Their motivation then was merely that they didn't want to have "a boring season," but the remedy against such an evil proved far more grandiose than they had at first imagined...
Meetings between the Festival's original threesome and groups such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. The Harvard Advocate and the Leverett House Opera Society produced more and more positive results, and by December, scheduling was definitely coordinating the HDC's usual theatre slots with the performances planned by the other organizations. At the University level the problems remained, but with endless enthusiasm, mysterious energies and cool-headed planning, these obstacles have gradually vanished...
...Harvard Square wonderland continues to blossom under Kristen's resourceful direction. At Festival "headquarters" at the Loeb, activity has reached a feverish pitch on stage, in the shop and in the HDC office. Jon, Weezy and Colin seem to be everywhere at once, followed by an enthusiastic production staff wherever they go. Yet the working group is not yet large enough--the Harvard Festival of the Arts and the Harvard Square Arts Festival want to provide a spring celebration for every interested Harvard student, for every fun loving or energetic member of the Harvard and Cambridge communities. As a spring...