Word: hdc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ballyhoo number one, announced yesterday, is a male beauty contest, sponsored by HDC to attract attention to their forthcoming production of "Winterset." Miss Chili Williams, HDC announced yesterday, will select "Mr. Harvard of 1946" at a contest tomorrow afternoon outside of the Pi Eta Club, corner Boylston and Mt. Auburn Streets...
Casting is complete, sets are being built, and rehearsals are now in progress for the Dramatic Club's first American ply in six years, Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," which opens a split week at Brattle Hll May 2. Last HDC home grown production was Eugene O'Neill's "The Great God Brown" in the spring...
Theodore Allegretti '47, who starred in the HDC production of Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" in 1943, heads a cast in which Miss Kay Casselle, Radcliffe '47, Edwin Franklin '47, Andrew McCullough '47, Louis Weinman '46, Robert Lubchansky '48, and John Simon '45 also play leading roles. A Simmons College girl has been cast in a minor part...
...stage and unimaginative costumes, especially for the three female roles. Wigs in most cases, improved little, due mainly to anachronistic hair styles. All these faults contribute, unfortunately, toward the failure of the Dramatic Club's presentation of "Le Misanthrope" as an adequate representation of either Moliere's or the HDC's potentialities...
This production, which marks the first time the HDC has worked independently of the Radcliffe Idler since the pre-war years, will again be directed by Fritz Jessner, who held the same position for last term's performance of "Much Ade About Nothing...