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...College inundated with hordes of veterans. It was a great day for Harvard theatre when one of these veterans stepped up to the registration table--Jerome T. Kilty '49. Dissatisfied with the status of the HDC, Kilty lost no time in founding a new group, the Veterans Theatre Workshop, in which he was joined by two dozen other veterans, almost all of whom had, like himself, a considerable amount of theatre experience...
...start of the academic year 1947-48, the VTW decided to accept non-veterans, and changed its name to the Harvard Theatre Workshop. No lowering of standards was countenanced. And the HTW proceeded to give a remarkable series of productions, including Shakespeare's Henry IV, 1 (with Kilty as Falstaff, a performance that no-one but Kilty himself has since equaled), Richard II (with a wardrobe of costumes costing $1600), Troilus and Cressida, and The Tempest...
...same week, HDC president Peter L. Shoup '55 announced the founding of its New Theatre Workshop, whose main purpose was to present, on a budget of between $10 and $25 each, live productions of plays written by students. For the first time in many years, the student playwright was accorded formal recognition, encouragement, and an outlet through which he could obtain, as Archibald MacLeish has said, the necessary experience of feeling "the blush of shame" that comes when he sees his own work produced. The Workshop has continued right up to the present and has fulfilled its mission admirably...
Although the Architects Collaborative is still working on blueprints, the general features of the changeover have been decided upon. The basement will contain an audio workshop for language learning by tape recording, and the first floor will contain a common room and "social room" to be used for teas, receptions and programs of language clubs...
...that time there were "workshops" at Adams House--a series of Sunday afternoon sessions, where students could play some jazz, or just listen. Kuhn acted as technical adviser at the workshops and feels they were "rather successful." "A lot of people had a chance to play, and some learned something. It folded last year when Beckwith graduated." Although many jazzmen miss the workshop sessions, no one has filled the void with initiative...