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Confronted with a virtual coup d'etat last month, the HDC membership responded as expected. When five undergraduates announced their self-appointment as a non-elective, self-perpetuating executive committee that would select all mainstage plays, it was a new version of the old nightmare. Faculty influence was suspected: "Chapman and Hamlin are probably behind this, you know;" "The committee will be a pawn of the Faculty within a few years...
Under the proposed constitution, the five-man executive committee would choose all plays for production in the Loeb. George Hamlin, associate director of the Loeb, Chapman, and the president of the HDC would meet with the committee, but none of those three would vote...
...acting, an increased demand like that which already is enlarging the technical staff can be expected to arise. Historically Harvard theater has seemed most professional when in fact it was so. For example, many of the Harvard undergraduates involved in the excellent productions of the Veterans Theater Workshop, HDC and Brattle Theater group after the Second World War had acquired theatrical experience and maturity before they arrived in Cambridge...
...install it in the Loeb. But the more existence of the Loeb Drama Center does not demand or justify the addition of professional acting courses in the undergraduate curriculum any more than the existence of oldiers Field demands professional football. Joel F. Henning '61 President, HDC...
...undergraduate, Daniel Selzer, acting director of the Loeb, was president of Theatre Intime, "an affected name for the Princeton equivalent of the HDC." And as an actor in student productions, Daniel Selzer, widely acclaimed for his performance as Falstaff last spring portrayed Tartuffe, Iago, and Henry...