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In 1844, the Pudding members decided that the mock trials had run their course. Lemuel Hayward, Class of 1845, borrowed a plot from a stage play that had been produced in Boston’s Tremont Theatre and created Bombastes Furioso, a “tragicomic opera.?...
“The play went off splendidly. Distaffina wore a low neck and short sleeves, and on her introducing a fancy dance, the applause almost shook old Hollis down,” he said. “Another member of the Club lived in the rooms across the entry...
The productions became increasingly popular, and the organization grew. By the 1860s, the theatricals company was putting up eight shows a season. In 1866, they stopped borrowing plots and music from professional plays and operas, and their shows became solely student-written and student-produced. In 1867, the Pudding staged...
In 1949, members of the Hasty Pudding Club decided to honor a woman—at the time in short supply on Harvard’s all-male campus—not for her dedication to the theatrical arts, but for her good looks. The members of the society approached...
A year later, the members of the Pudding made an overture to Sharman Douglas, a celebrity socialite to rival Paris Hilton, the debutante daughter of the American ambassador to Britain, and one of Princess Margaret’s closest