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...sake of Harvard theatre in the future, student groups should shy from repeating the type of dramatic hash that sustains high school theatrics and grossly amateur stock groups. With the first faculty guided workshop under way since the days of George Pierce Baker, and increasing agitation for a University built plant to house student productions, I believe that present groups can most aid their own cause by raising the prestige of theatre at Harvard. This prestige can only come through experimentation. Lacking a drama department that would recruit talent with subsidies such as a degree for study that is essentially...
...these other projects was the building of the Business School across the Charles. In 1923, when a fire in Massachusetts Hall forced the Workshop out of business temporarily, it at last looked as though the theater might be included in the Business School drive. On sabbatical during that year, Baker waited anxiously for word on this possibility and was finally notified that it had been vetoed. It was reported that one member of the Corporation had said that the inclusion of the theater would "kill the whole project...
...Liberal Union began sounding out student opinion and discovered considerable interest in reviving a study of playwrighting and producing. Reporting this to the administration, they received an altogether unsympathetic reply. It was then that the HDC conceived the idea of an appeal to the literally hundreds of Baker Workshop and other Harvard alumni already active in professional theater...
...continue the College's dramatic heritage. The strongest, of course, was the HDC. In the club's early years, it stuck to the policy of producing only plays written by students or recent graduates; but after the first World War HDC decided that it could not compete with the Workshop in this field and went on a new tack. In the next two decades HDC devoted itself almost exclusively to giving American premieres to foreign playwrights, a policy which attracted considerable interest in its productions. Among the foreign writers to whom HDC gave first American productions were Maeterlinck, Guitry, Galsworthy...
World War II, of course, disrupted dramatic activity at the College, but the war indirectly gave birth to the finest theater group here in the last two decades--the Harvard Veterans Workshop. Back from the wars in 1947 came a group of talented, ambitious students who already had done considerable work in profession-5The above scene is from a dress rehearsal of the 1909 production of Schiller's "Joan of Arc." The star, Maude Adams, is shown at left center. Presented in the Stadium under the auspices of the German Department, this production had a supporting cast...