Word: unicorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement last night by Producer Joe Losey and President John C. Haggott '35, of the Dramatic Club that Miss Margaret Lang, of Boston, had been selected to play the part of the Girl With the Mask, in the club's annual production, "A Bride for the Unicorn," brought the problem of picking the female cast one step nearer solution...
President Conant stepped in yesterday to take charge of the Dramatic Club situation, when he asked the Faculty members on the Advisory Board to read the spring play. "A Bride For The Unicorn" and pass judgment...
President Comstock has forbidden eleven Radcliffe students to act in the Dramatic Club's "A Bride for the Unicorn", not because of any specific lines but because of the unsuitability of the parts. And this prohibition was issued after the cast had been tried and chosen, and presumably had a pretty correct conception of the characters to be portrayed. But in addition to this display of shrinking Puritanism on the part of Radcliffe, President Conant has found it necessary for the advisory board of the Dramatic Club at Harvard to decide whether the play shall be banned entirely...
Hence the prohibition on Radcliffe participating in "A Bride for the Unicorn" is very nearly parallel to a prohibition on college girls acting in one of the great tragedies; yet Vassar gives Greek plays regularly. A still closer parallel can be found in "Mourning Becomes Electra," with the extremely important distinction that while this is handled realistically, Johnston's play is symbolic. Thus it would be more absurd for Harvard Dramatic Club advisers to ban the latter than O'Neill's play...
Denial of stories that appeared in a newspaper yesterday to the effect that the University had prohibited the production of "A Bride for the Unicorn" as a result of the barring of Radcliffe girls from the play by President Comstock, came from the officers of the Dramatic Club last night...