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...house productions. As long as there are audiences willing to pay and talent wanting to be used, there is room for another play. The new theatre's appeal, based upon increased polish, should complement the intimacy of house productions. Such competition should only encourage such organizations as HDC to attempt larger, more professional productions and help the house groups to remain, and in some cases to regain, their house flavor...
Something Wild, as Hal Scott says in his opening declamation, is about decadence. Scott and his HDC'ers stay well within this theme--no difficult feat with Tennessee Williams--yet accomplished acting makes these three short plays represent more than decadence: each becomes, with skillful handling, an escape into freedom...
...tone. The costumes and sets are simple; but their starkness is the key to their effect. The jazzy musical background is usually effective. With the exception of a little mechanical following of blocking, the production is generally excellent. Each escape is impressive: with most of the old stand-by HDC'ers doing the escaping and Hal Scott aiding and abetting them, this little bundle of abnormality is well worth a trot over to Agassiz...
...touch of honest make-believe for the children, and each production is distinctive for which of the two out-performs the other. While in both book and direction The Wizard of Oz offers some off-hand humor, its charm chiefly will attract the young fry. Five, discounting the HDC, attended last night's opening...
John U. Lemmon, III '47, a former HDC star, won an Oscar Wednesday as the best supporting actor of 1955. He received the award for his portrayal of Ensign Pulver in "Mr. Roberts...