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...double bill presented by the Harvard Theatre Group at Agassiz Theatre is billed as a Workshop Production. The idea behind it was to substitute something for the Reading Theatre, a project by which novice actors, directors, and technicians would get a chance to flex their muscles before tackling a major production...
Dean Joseph Hudnut's action against Design 1 recalls a somewhat similar action 25 or 30 years ago, when George Pierce Baker was forced to close the '47 Workshop in the drama. It seems unfortunate that Harvard is unable to keep up any such creative outposts for very long. This matter is hardly ever one of impracticability, for time and money have been found in the past for many projects. It is, I feel, a problem of the distrust of anything new and unfamiliar to University life. Baker went to Yale: Richard Filipowski has been approached by another university which...
...embraces pictures as well as walls, furniture as well as floor plans, iceboxes as well as kitchens. It is based on two ideas, one practical and the other esthetic. The practical idea was not at all obvious when Gropius first acted on it. Modern designers, he reasoned, should get workshop training and should be made familiar with the materials and the machines used in mass production, and their designs should be geared to make use of those materials and machines. Gropius' esthetic notion was deceptively simple. Recognizing that the beauties of nature's creation are part and parcel...
Television Workshop (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). Don Quixote, with Boris Karloff, Jimmy Savo...
...first opera ever to be commissioned for TV, and first to be sponsored (Hallmark Cards), Amahl was given a production of care and quality, with Bosch-like sets and costumes by topnotch Designer Eugene Berman. Next step for Amahl: a stage première at the Indiana University Opera Workshop in February. After that, Menotti is thinking about the possibility of its being double-billed (perhaps with The Medium') at New York's City Center Opera...