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Green cited Dean's office hostility as the major cause of the movement to disband. He stated that this attitude, combined with certain "financial considerations," has made it impossible for the HDC to operate on the large scale proper for a college wide organization...
Green and James S. Harrison '57, his predecessor as HDC president, last night called for a new college dramatic organization to be formed next fall, under Administration auspices. Only such a group, they maintained, could efficiently conduct dramatics on a College-wide scale. They suggested that this new group should voluntarily assume any outstanding obligations of the HDC, to "preserve the name of Harvard theater...
Green indicated that he had met with Dean Watson in the past few days in an attempt to secure help for the HDC from the Administration. According to Green his requests for a loan and for shop space on University property were both turned down. Furthermore, he reported being told that the Faculty Committee on Student Activities would oppose any attempt by the Club to rent outside facilities...
...production of Shaw's Candida for $.60, one now is forced to pay $1.50 to scramble for a chair in the Adams House lower common room to see students playing Uncle Vanya. Just five years ago the Harvard Theater Group presented Coriolanus with admission only $.60; in 1955 the HDC came out with a show entitled Great To Be Back!, and made the rock bottom price...
...HDC insist they don't make a profit, in the long run. The considerable amount of money brought in from a play such as Death of A Salesman goes to fill the deficit for some such turkey as Macbeth. And it is useless to exhort the Club not to produce bad plays. The big income for a production like Hamlet is met by equally big expenses for extravagant costumes and costly set construction. If the HDC could reduce spending on these two items, perhaps ticket prices might be lowered to a more reasonable level; certainly cost of a production...