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Also at this meeting, a student subcommittee, composed of Neil Smith '54, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and Anthony Herrey '54, HDC designer, will present suggestions on the kind of new building which world best meet the needs of student dramatic organizations...
...this year, at least, the course of Harvard drama seems clear. The HDC has announced Murder in the Cathedral for its third production, and after a seasonal curtain raiser of MacLeish, the Poets' Theatre is launched into Yeats. Evidently this will not be another season featuring the drama of Shakespeare and the wit of Noel Coward...
...years after Baker's departure Harvard theater was in a state of shock and relatively inactive. Then in 1928, the HDC and the Liberal Union began sounding out student opinion and discovered considerable interest in reviving a study of playwrighting and producing. Reporting this to the administration, they received an altogether unsympathetic reply. It was then that the HDC conceived the idea of an appeal to the literally hundreds of Baker Workshop and other Harvard alumni already active in professional theater...
Leaders of the HDC went to New York in 1929, held six conferences with alumni there and returned with promises of full financial support and active participation. Thus it happened that in February 1930 the Cambridge School of the Drama opened with an enrollment of 65. The school had no official connection with the University, although three quarters of its students were also undergraduates at either Harvard or Radcliffe. The administration was entirely in the hands of an alumni board of governors, including Simonson, Abbott, Davis, Macgowan, Jones, Wertheim and Ames. These men formed a visiting faculty which supplemented...
With the death of the Cambridge School in 1932 ended the "Golden Age" of theater at Harvard. Fortunately, though, the HDC and other dramatic groups were still enough alive to continue the College's dramatic heritage. The strongest, of course, was the HDC. In the club's early years, it stuck to the policy of producing only plays written by students or recent graduates; but after the first World War HDC decided that it could not compete with the Workshop in this field and went on a new tack. In the next two decades HDC devoted itself almost exclusively...