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Twenty-four hours after the final curtain on "June and the Paycock," HDC President Ted, Allegretti '47 is already busy with an ambitious dramatic program for the 1947-48 season. In addition to a proposed-season of four College productions, he plans to branch out into the field of radio with a series of weekly performances over Station WHDH next year...
Starting with a nucleus of talent from his own organization, Allegretti hopes to incorporate other local talent, both from within the College and from such sources of talent as Radcliffe and Wellesley. This radio group will supplant the HDC's present reading theater group, and "will be an opportunity to go into far more ambitious productions than the limited facilities at College will allow," he predicts. "With their equipment we can even put on Orson Welles type shows...
Amateurism, the inevitable companion of amateur theater, finally caught up with Harvard dramatics last night. After a winter season unparalleled in recent years for artistic and financial success, the local thespians--HDC wing--have taken one more step into what must have looked like the blue heaven of prosperity. If the opening performance of their prosperity vehicle is any criterion, however, they are about to rub their eyes and find the stardust quite, quite gone...
...chief failure of the play, however, was in the individual performances. The general run achieved a wooden mediocrity which broke the back of any attempt to maintain the professional illusion which has characterized recent HDC and other local efforts. Others were more objectionable: Walter Frank completely misplayed Joxer, making him a large and boisterous knave instead of the small, whining rogue he is; and Robert Lubchansky was oily to an unpleasant extreme as Bentham...
...HDC production, which ends its five-day run Saturday with a matinee and evening performance, has Theodore Allegretti '47 and Helen McClosky starring in roles of "Captain" Jack Boyle and Juno Boyle, his wife...