Word: theater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moderator Harry T. Levin, professor of English, summed up the opinions of six panel speakers at last night's Idler drama forum as "general unanimity to the propsition that we need a College theater; how we can get it must be saved for another...
After Miss Helen Maud Cam, Radcliffe Professor of History, and Frank Day Tuttle, professor of Drama at Smith College, extolled the work of the Arts Theater at Cambridge University, England, and of the active drama department at Smith, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Brattle Theater Director Jerome T. Kilty '49, came to the defense of dramatic activity at Harvard. Kilty claimed University support and guidance a necessary factor but said he felt a separate dramatic department would detract from the regular general Harvard education...
...latest production, "The Guardsman," the Brattle Theater Company is relying for the first time on its own resident actors to carry all the major roles. That they can do it successfully should come as no surprise to regular patrons, particularly when the leading roles are handled by such skillful people as Jan Farrand and Robert Fletcher...
...very little wit, though the Brattle Players frequently make it seem so. With them for this show as a guest actress, is Viola Roache, who gives a sturdily humorous performance as the quasi-"Mama" to Miss Farrand. Other highlights of the evening are contributed by Jeanne Tufts as a theater usher, and by Eleanor MacLean as Liesl, the maid. Miss MacLean's name has been on the Brattle programs before, but always in the capacity of wardrobe mistress. If this is a promotion, it is certainly a just one, for her maid is one of the funniest of the many...
...Brattle Theater Company has in the past devoted its efforts to the ancient and modern classics, and perhaps one could say that "The Guardsman" is a classic of that kind, though of a far different cut of cloth. The fiber is weak but the pattern is bright, and the present wearers have given it a remarkable sheen...