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This ruling leaves the Workshop with no home for its spring production. Director Jerome T. Kilty '50 asserted "I don't know what we'll do yet," explaining that use of Sanders Theatre cannot be counted on until various University groups, now signed up for nights in April, have been contacted. Organizations like the Band and the Glee Club are regular users of the auditorium for both concerts and rehearsals...
...long time the Dramatic Club, and more recently the Theater Workshop, have been struggling with Sanders' physical layout. The stage itself meets the requirements of Elizabethan drama, and impressionist plays like "Our Town," where any hare platform will do. The choice of plays has often revolved on the problem of what can be done with poor old 16th century Sanders. In some cases, a whack at a play that is neither impressionist nor Elizabethan has produced ingenious efforts at staging the near impossible, but for the most part, the Sanders stage lias severely limited the selection of material...
...Henry IV, Part One," for instance, HTW barely broke even, and yet the play drew large crowds for each performance. For services connected with the use of Sanders, the Workshop had to pay the University about $560. If the play had been a failure financially, HTW couldn't have paid its bills. And apparently, University aid in such a dilemma would not leap forth...
...Sanders is concerned the Theater Workshop has simply given up. It is going elsewhere; not that there's anywhere much else to go, but the Sanders situations has just proven too heavy a load to bear. HDC is wavering on the brink. Sanders is out of the question for its spring play, and the Club has managed to squeeze into the Brattle Sreet Theater. Beyond that, HDC doesn't know...
Leaders of the Theater Workshop's "Murder in the Cathedral" made further preparation yesterday for their April production when they completed final casting of T. S. Eliot verse-play. Simultaneously the Harvard Dramatic Club continued its search for a director for its own "The Surivors" when refusal came last night from the leading prospect...