Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loeb Drama Center should not be a school, yet should serve an educational purpose, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and member of the Faculty Committee on Theatre explained last night...
...Leave aside questions about freedom," MacLeish said. "All the present facilities will stand there for organizations to do anything they want." He added that the Loeb should be regarded as simply another facility...
...forum, described by one panel member as a "mutual groping," revealed no definite policy decisions on the administration of the Loeb Center. Hugh A. Stubbins, Jr., architect of the theatre, reviewed briefly the features of the building, explaining its adaptability to proscenium, Elizabethan, and full-round productions...
Joel F. Henning '61, president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, opened the question of University control of productions in the Loeb Theatre. He cautioned that the necessary and desirable pooling of technical personnel, costumes, and stage scenery, together with the loss of sole responsibility for selecting plays might tend to render College-wide theatrical groups superfluous...
Disturbed by the questions of several members of the audience as to control policies and financial advantages of the Loeb, MacLeish mentioned lightly that he "almost detected an undertone that we should never have built the theatre...