Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned out. The losses were heavy, and the only things which held the inchoate group together were confidence in its leaders, critical praise received by its principal actors, and the encouraging results of a poll which had just been raken to find the College's preference in drama. From the ballots handed out in the dining halls, the VTW had learned that the most popular playwrights were Shakespeare, Shaw, and Noel Coward--a winning combination which might have come as a surprise to any but the last two named. A Shakespearean play would have been too expensive for the indebted...
...plight of drama at Harvard has been frequently discussed on these pages (and will continue to be, it is hoped, until the drama is given its rightful, official recognition); it will not again be related here. However, if the HDC had had intelligent faculty guidance and if it did not have to pay high rental fees (for both rehearsal space and an auditorium)--two handicaps the University could endeavor to remove--there is little doubt but that the past few years would not have been so fruitless and bitter for the Club...
Denis Johnston, former director of the Abbey Theater in Dublin and currently director of drama at the British Broadcasting Corporation will round out the panel as representative of stage and radio dramatists...
Simultaneous panels on drama and music are scheduled for Saturday morning. Elinor Hughes, drama critic of the Boston Herald, is slated to conduct the first; Boris Goldovsky and Lucas Foss, composer and pianist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will share honors at the head of the music panel...
...selection of material is ruthlessly right. The war story, for most of its path, crashes like a hurtling tank through the forest of events. But the hard unity and rounded drama of each chapter brakes the rush, preserves a sense of direction, and imposes a feeling of historic logic. The pictures themselves satisfy, or fail to, in about the same degree and frequency as actuality itself. Yet now & again, as actuality can, a few moments blaze with the fire of art. Items...