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John H. Finley '24, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, while on the way to his Harvard doctorate managed to find time to write the masque Thalia; or, A Country Day (1929). A charming if overwritten work, Thalia was most recently performed by the HDC Actors' Laboratory...
Thornton Wilder, during his year here (1950-51) as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, gave assistance to the HDC in its production of his Skin of Our Teeth. While living in Dunster House, Wilder did quite a bit of work on a play called The Emporium, which contained much intriguing material. Wilder is an exceedingly slow and self-critical worker; and he still has not completed this play to his satisfaction...
...HDC, with an unusually ambitious schedule of five major productions, clearly had a successful season--a welcome change from the poor one of the previous year. The opening choice, Williams' The Glass Menagerie, received an affecting rendition in Agassiz under the direction of John D. Hancock '61--with laudable work in each of its four roles by Mary Graydon, Kathryn Humphreys '60, Joel Crothers '62, and Peter G. Gesell '61. There followed, under John C. Beck '60, an adequate if unexciting traversal of Giraudoux's Tiger at the Gates at Pi Eta. In the spring, Agassiz housed the group...
...purpose of the decision is "to make the HDC a stronger club, responsible for producing the plays," and to make the club "an independent voice," said Joel F. Henning, President of HDC...
...Thursday the Advisory Committee will select four plays for its spring schedule from those submitted by the HDC, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, the Harvard Opera Guild, and other groups. Chapman was unable to predict the chances of the HDC suggestions...