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...University may grant the HDC space in the bindery of the Harvard University Press for centralizing its administrative and workshop facilities. The final decision on the concession is expected today, Douglas W. Bryant, Administrative Assistant Librarian in charge of the bindery, said yesterday...
...production of the HDC, as you might expect, lies somewhere in between. Its School for Scandal is more than funny. But in this new interpretation, Sheridan's acidity has been neutralized and while several scenes take on an agreeable mellowness, the play suffers. Director Edward Golden, evidently sensing that his most valuable property was Claire Scott's Lady Teazle, has emphasized the true warmth between that lady and her husband from the very beginning. Miss Scott has the ability of making Sheridan's most insulting lines seem a prologue to tenderness. Her Charm alone makes those exchanges between the elevated...
Contrast Miss Scott's great persuasions against the limitations of the HDC's Lady Sneerwell and you see why the play's balance has been upset. Mary Anne Goldsmith only now and then gives signs of the genuine, luxuriant wickedness which marks Sneerwell. For this wholesale slandering, the production looks to Elinor Fuchs as Mrs. Candour. Looking like a malignant Bea Lillie, Miss Fuchs deals in double-dealing, and very adroitly. Andre Gregory, as the hypocritical Joseph Surface, matches Miss Fuchs' high standard of lowness and holds his own in the fast company of Scandal's College...
...setting (John Ratte) and costumes and wigs (Lesile Van Zandt and Helen Gardiner) set the comic tone for a production that rarely slows down. By judiciously picking School for Scandal, the HDC presents a show which can hardly fail to please. Sheridan may have been more entertaining in past productions; the HDC rarely...
Although the Children's Theater is affiliated with the Harvard Dramatic Club, the Thurber adaptation, to be given sometime in March, will be done without the HDC's help...