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...fifth of the HDC New Theatre Workshop's experimental productions returns to the group's original purpose: to perform new plays. The two dramatic adaptations of E. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited written by two students in Professor Chapman's English Y were presented by different casts and different directors. They make an unhappy study in contrasts...
Maybe it all began with the Monty Woolley scandal of 1949. That was when the HDC's highly successful Boston production of The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Woolley in the title role, came to a disastrous end by the Club's business manager making off with the ten thousand dollar ticket receipts. That enterprising young man has never been seen since, and neither have the comfortably low admission prices for Harvard drama of that...
...open to conjecture whether the HDC has increased its ticket costs in following years to pull itself out of that morass of red. But this increase is not limited to the HDC, since smaller groups in the University have followed the rise up, indeed often surpassing the HDC in excessive admission charges...
Robert H. Secrist, Jr.: Lowell; HDC; Harvard DeMolay, Master Councillor; NROTC rifle team; Union Debate Council; HYRC; Conservative Club...
...same time as the HDC is putting on a big show with Hamlet, it is interesting to note that the Club is also returning--in a small way still to be sure--to another of the founders' major objectives, namely the production of original scripts. Chapman's interest in this has played no small part in the movement, although at present it is restricted to the Workshop level. While it is nice to bring plays to Harvard which have been done at the St. James or the Globe, it is equally, if not more, valuable and exciting to produce original...