Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major obstacles, lack of rehearsal space and the unavailability of a choir, have suddenly confronted the Veterans' Theater Workshop in its attempt to produce George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan...
...actors have been going through their lines for the past two weeks in basement rooms of the House Squash Courts. Now, however, "the Veterans' Theater Workshop has been informed that 400 folding chairs are considered more important to the University than Shaw's 'Saint Joan" Jerome T. Kilty '50, Workshop president, announced last night...
...Veterans Theater Workshop and the Dramatic Club will make another try for postwar popular success. This time, in the absence of fig-leaf and reincarnation, critical interest will center around the quality of the production rather than the meaning of pompous and obscure authors. In Shaw's "St. Joan" and Odets' "Waiting For Lefty," local thespians have two tested and playable dramas, while the HDC's additional offering, Saroyan's "The Ping-Pong Players," can turn out to be almost anything, and probably will...
...less than the worth of the two theater groups. Having expressed their preference in the veteran group's poll last month for Shaw as an author and for English satire and sophisticated comedy as a category, students will get a compromise from the veterans in the non-comic "St. Joan," while the HDC blithely ignores the lowly position of modern sociological drama on the ballot and proceeds with Odets. This puts it up to students themselves to demonstrate, on the one hand, if they will back up lunch-time enthusiasm with action at the box-office, and on the other...
...interfere with the job at hand. The man chosen for the part must literally throw himself into the vast sea that was the soul of the Savieur de France. I remember well the case of Reginald Arbutney, who gave the Longneck Theater its greatest evening in the first male "Joan." Unfortunately, Reginald was never allowed to follow his star for he inadvertently tied a corset string to one spur and thereby broke his neck mounting his white charger in the last act. May the Harvard Joan have more care. J. Thisby McManus...