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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...
...Loeb anyway, which receives the only official university funding for theater at Harvard, it certainly should not be. Again, personal and political issues seem to be involved. But if they have been, they have also been effectively hushed up by the HDC board's closed-door policy, whereby rejected applicants for slots were left with no idea as to why their plays were rejected. LaZebnik found similar seemingly irrational standards of choice in other areas of Harvard drama. His rejection by Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid seemed to him to have been based on the belief that...
Impossible as it would be to come up with figures on the number of frustrated playwrights at Harvard who've written works that have never been read, much less produced, buried away amongst their old term papers, such people do exist. In a drawer in the HDC office there is a pile of two dozen scripts, many written by Harvard and Radcliffe students, aching to be read and produced. And a fair number of Hasty Pudding scripts--all of them original--are rejected every year. The Premiere Society has already received manuscripts to consider for future productions. All that...
...last, it looks like something positive is going to be done, HPS, recognizing a bad situation, is developing a remedy. And the newly elected board of the HDC plans to radically alter traditional HDC policy by doing away with the secrecy with which decisions about Mainstage show have been made in the past, in a meeting to be held at the Loeb on March, I for everyone interested in applying for Loeb slots, the board plans to implement a new open policy whereby it will collaborate with the applicants to establish the criteria for deciding which shows will be produced...
...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