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...some obscure reason, WHRB and Steve Aaron have combined resources and talent to make a tape recording of the broadcast, following the original script. The cast is a combination of WHRB announcers and HDC actors, the latter faring better...
...issue. Discussion of the issue itself is, however, difficult, since there is virtually nothing in it. There are two selections from an unpublished novel by an Advocate Pegasus three years graduated; two poems by William Alfred, whose connection with the magazine is equally tenuous; a free ad for the HDC's 100th production by Steve Aaron; a poem by Junior Jonathan Kozol, and a somewhat unusual biographical reverie by President John Ratte...
...handful of dedicated participants, there are now more interested people than can be comfortably accommodated. Harold R. Scott '57, who has been a leader in this revival of spirit, playing the dual roe of actor (John of Gaunt in the Eliot Drama Group's Richard II) and director (the HDC's Something Wild), estimated that there are "about 200 people from Harvard and Radcliffe who have performed in one show or another...
...past, House groups generally have given just one production per year, but this year Eliot gave three. The reason for this was simple. By drawing its personnel from the whole University, the Drama Group was just another HDC in disguise. It had the added advantage of having a definite place to rehearse, whereas the HDC has had to move around to find adequate rehearsal space. Tashjian points out that "the support of Master Finley has been inestimable," referring to the fact that a House group has "an angel" in its Master who can usually appropriate House funds to help...
This amazing success of the House Groups, which try to appeal to the same audiences as does the HDC, and which have consistently produced high quality performances, has presented theatre people with a dilemma. On one hand they recognize the "present prosperity" of drama, but on the other hand they believe Harvard must have its own University Theatre...