Word: valtz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Representatives from Agassiz and Dudley, at a meeting in Agassiz, formed committees and set the production date for December. Loretta Valtz '52 wrote the show, and Harry Flynn '52 composed the music...
...Miss Valtz is a past president and founder of the Radcliffe Playwrights Club. This is her first attempt at musical comedy, but a previous play dealing with an Italian race car driver was received very well in last year's contest...
...chosen the best of the plays submitted for judging to Archibald MacLeish, Ernest Hemingway, William Van Lennep, Mary Martin, and Elinor Hughes. But that play is to be produced elsewhere. So the Playwrights Groups chose as their first production the runner-up, "The Bystander," by Loretta J. Valtz, a junior at Radcliffe...
...Miss Valtz shows a decided talent for writing dialogue, especially of a witty nature, but her ability to plot situations through which convincing characters move has yet to be developed. The theme seems to concern itself with the inner problems of a young man who has lost his faith and turned to automobile racing as a complete involvement in which he can both lose himself and find himself at the same time. This seems to involve no conflict, though I might be wrong, as there also seems to be an attempt at resolution at the end. The plot fails...
This is the first time a group of Harvard and Radcliffe students have written, produced, and directed their own play. The two-act play written by Miss Valtz, won second place in the Playwrights' contest this year...