Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dunster House will stage a double feature on Friday. December 18 when the annual Christmas play is presented on the same night as the Funsters' Winter Dance. Charles Stern and Grant Wiprud are in charge of the play while Eliot Snider will manage the dance...
...mere fact that there is a radio station and a stage is not enough incentive to produce an army of writers at Harvard. Training must come first...
Writing for radio and the stage are specialized trades. They are media different from all others. They have their own particular tricks and conventions that must be mastered. And training can only come through an official course in composition. That such a course be given credit towards a degree is essential: the Extra-Curricular Reading in American Civilization proved that...
With five courses at Harvard devoted to composition, certainly one could be given over completely to the stage and the radio. No radical change in the English Department is necessary. In fact, English A-2, with its emphasis on the short story, has already established the precedent. It would merely mean that A-3 or A-4, for example, would change its name asd take on a specific purpose...
...course, even if University Hall approves the course, there is still the question of who is to give it. The English Department may claim that none of its men knows enough about stage and radio. True enough, perhaps. But what is needed is not so much a professional but a man with interest and drive enough to put the course over. In its own fold, Harvard has men like Mr. Siepmann who can give valuable professional advice. And then there is always the bright hope that an expert right from the field of radio and drama might be induced...