Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radio and Drama Committee which will write and produce stage plays and radio scripts, and a College Questions Committee which will attempt to deal with such problems as the effect of the recent migration of professors to Washington and the three-year graduation plan...
...Candle in the Wind" is not a good anti-Nazi play; it is not even good drama. Possibly because it is such an isolated instance in the greater drama of the fall of France, possibly because Mr. Anderson thinks that a vivid setting and screams of anguish from off-stage are all that are necessary to denote Nazi barbarity, but whatever the cause, "Candle in the Wind" is due for quick snuffing in New York...
...play could not be spoiled by any cast which so much as learned the lines. With so competent a cast (with the one exception) as Manager Beckhard has assembled the drama is well worth seeing--especially since students who present their bursar's card will be given a discount on the admission price...
Completing plans for fall broadcasts and announcing the opening next week of a competition for all boards, the Harvard Radio Workshop has started its fifth year of undergraduate extracurricular study of radio drama techniques. The Workshop's first essay into crime plays is "The Corpse in the Classroom," the opening drama in a collection of six blood and thunder tales to be presented over the college network in the near future...
...sitting near one of the cast if you're in the orchestra. The plot involves a couple of violent deaths which only add to the fun, and the leading character is Tom Dewey minus mustache. All of it is, therefore, rather confusing and not at all significant drama. From the opening corpse through three acts' worth of looking for the killer, the cliches trip over each other in their eagerness to get across. The wise-cracking reporters, the unconnected telephone, the slow-witted darkie, they're all there, most of them good for a laugh, the rest for a yawn...