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...Tis Pity She's a Whore has great possibilities. Intriguing, suggestive opportunities for passion and subtlety are richly woven into every act. Unfortunately, the HDC makes the least of nearly every opportunity; their production of Tis Pity drops Harvard theatre to a low level--an overacted, externally acted, embarassing, awkward level...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: `Tis Pity She's a Whore' | 12/4/1957 | See Source »

Many in the audience made the appropriate intermission comment about the whole production: "We can learn from mistakes." Others simply said, "Tis Pity...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: `Tis Pity She's a Whore' | 12/4/1957 | See Source »

...latest stratagem employed by the Harvard Dramatic Club to advertise their production of "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" is a poster displaying Gothic arches. The arches lend an Elizabethan atmosphere and at the same time utilize perspective such that the word "whore" is barely visible to casual passers-by. If they could do it, the HDC would like to do away with this world altogether, since it has delayed printing orders, cancelled window displays, and prompted the hasty removal of posters from utility poles around the Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Tis Indeed... | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

...finding a synonym would be difficult: "'Tis Pity She's a Paramour" or "'Tis Pity She's a Lady of the Evening" have neither the simplicity nor the zip of the original. It is too late now, but the HDC could have combined a tasteful community-wide promotion of the play with a provocative and money-making contest. Using an eye-catching photograph of the heroine and barring all English concentrators from the game, the contest posters might have looked something like this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Tis Indeed... | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

...Tis Pity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Tis Indeed... | 11/30/1957 | See Source »

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