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...great day for critics when the creation brought forth the leopard. "Spotty" has been one of the most valuable words in the theatre jargon ever since, and it has never been more accurate than when applied to Great to Be Back! The HDC's latest production is a musical revue, which ideally would mean songs of verve and wit combined with imaginative sketches...
Perhaps one typical Harvard type is missing: the "arty" group. Winthrop has its share of bright and serious students, but it has somehow failed to attract men of HDC and Advocate bent. If it has failed, it is not the fault of Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry or his able, energetic Senior Tutor, Daniel S. Cheever. For Ferry has attempted to adhere closely to the original concept of the House system...
Amidst dramatic productions by the HDC, Drumbeats and Song, and other College groups, yesterday's announcement of a new course in playwrighting spotlights an important development at the University. Along with the Drama Club's recent decision to enter television and the unprecedented naming of two Spenser lecturers on Drama for this spring, the course represents something University people have been waiting for since 1923: A full-scale revival of interest in the Theatre at Harvard...
...playwrighting course itself offers an excellent opportunity for the stimulation of creative drama. Virtually the first such course since George Pierce baker left Harvard for Yale in 1928, it can join with the HDC's New theater workshop to bring about the same sort of writer-actor cooperation that distinguished Baker's famous '47 Workshop." The best experience a young playwright can have, professor MacLeish has said, is "the blush of shame" that comes when he sees his own place produced. Such beneficial experiences could be commonplace if student-written plays were regularly produced by the Workshop...
...acceptable to a liberal arts curriculum such as that of the Fine Arts Department, or in a more practical form it could become a part of the Graduate School of Design. In any event, a course in stage designing is needed by students-there are many in the HDC alone-who have talent and interest in theatrical designing, but no knowledge of the theories or mechanics of the subject. Fine Arts or design School administrators should begin plans for such a course as soon as possible...