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...taste in its selection of a play does not signify, as that editorial stated, that the Harvard Dramatic Club is on the road "to hamdom." But the editorial went further than this and implied that the Club was already on that much-trodden road before the affair of "The Trojan Horse...
...Shaw's "The Man of Destiny," and Frederico Garcia Lorca's "The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife." They had just started rehearsals on that, when, last Tuesday, Hillyer phoned the Dean's Office and repeated what he had told Spencer: that, although he did not like "The Trojan Horse," he thought that H.D.C. should be able to put on the play if it really wanted...
...this time it was too late to shift back to Morley, so the Dramatic Club has decided to go with their two shorter plays, and possibly resurrect "The Trojan Horse" once more for their Spring production
This fall, unwisely enough, the Club decided to go on with its compromise policy and even to outdo itself with a play of the Hasty Pudidg Club type. Not until after they had started rehearsals on their choice, Christopher Morley's "The Trojan Horse," did they think to consult their Faculty advisers. One of their three mentors, Professor Theodore Spencer, firmly put his foot down on the production of the show, terming it "trash...
Professor Spencer's verdict on the merit of "The Trojan Horse" is undoubtedly correct, but his right to call a halt to an H.D.C. production on literary grounds is certainly tenuous at best. The function of an adviser as far as censorship is concerned is to pass on pornography. If the amateur actors wish to continue on their road to hamdom, it is their privilege...