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...Dramatic Club has received permission from the University to use a large section of the Harvard Book Bindery's first floor as its central head-quarters. Edward J. Golden '55, HDC president, announced the acquisition last night and emphasized the importance of the move for dramatics here...
Late next week the club will start moving into its new location which will have not only storage space and set and costume shops but also an arena theater twice the size of the present workshop theater. All workshop productions will be held here during the spring, although major HDC productions will continue to be presented in outside theaters...
Frederick C. Packard, Jr., associate professor of Public Speaking and one of the HDC's faculty advisers, also praised the move. "The Club can now feel organized and have some sense of continuity in its work," he said. "Surely this is a step forward, and it is particularly fortunate the Club is in a University building where it will have no steep rental charges and the members will have a free hand to work without jeopardy to valuable property...
Golden and other HDC officers sent a letter to all professors and administration officials interested in Harvard dramatics immediately after the School for Scandal production last fall describing the problems of continuing to produce plays with facilities in three or four different locations all over Cambridge. Packard and Dean Watson then started a tour of all University buildings to find a suitable location for the centralization of HDC activities...
...planning its production of "School for Scandal" this year, the club has had to work in three separate locations. Casting took place in the Student Activities Center and consumes were made at Radcliffe; but the HDC had to rent a loft in a deserted factory on Arrow St. for set designing...