Harvard University - Red Book Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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,sp . ,-. X LQJ, 'f l f., .P ' 'vi 'L ' T' .1 1' NLIKE most activities, which folded up under the exigencies of wartime or barely limped along with a skeleton membership, dramatics at Harvard grew and flourished while Dramatic Club, 1945. Burk Rozosjulian H. Ellner '45, George H.jantzen '45, Virgil Gore '46, Martin Shwartz '44, Adams H. Nickerson '46, William F. Di Pesa '45. Frou: Row: Earl M. Wedrow '45, Nicholas C. Gilles '45 U'rear1n'crJ, Charles R. Dean, Ill '46fPre1irlw1fD, Donald S. Gair '45 fVirc' Prerirlenlj, Gerald E. Maslon '45 Q5'vcretm'yj. Harvard Has Three Major Drama Groups '46 was in College. Not only did the Harvard Dramatic Club score impressive successes with new and original plays, not only did the Hasty Pudding Club's annual hilarious musicals, after a short wartime interim, play to packed houses and pop- ping flash bulbs, but a new dramatic organization, the Harvard Theatre Workshop, was formed by returning war veterans and staged productions of Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw which won acclaim from some of the nation's foremost dramatic critics. Plaudits For a Rough Translation For forty years, in the absence of a drama department at Harvard, the Dramatic Club provided the only opportunity for serious dramatic training and expression, and has included among its members such famous names as Robert Benchley and john Mason Brown. But none of its productions achieved greater success than Murbcnko, the first major HDC effort in which '46 participated. A rough translation from the Russian play by Alexander Afinegenov, Marlaenka played to standees and drew Hollywood offers for ingenue Anne Put- nam, Radcliffe '46. In the spring of 1943, Charles R. Dean '46 was elected president of HDC, and several members of the Class helped put on Lorca's Dom: Rorim, and in the fall Barrie's Azlminzblc Crichton with the Beaver girls' school. Mrs. Mark de Wolfe Howe, a former Abbey player, directed the successful produc- Dramatic Club, 1944. Barb Row: Peter V. Poor '47, Seabury G. Quinn '47, Crai f P. Gilbert '47 Qlixemlioe Boardj, Gerald E. Maslon '45 fE.'W'Cllli1'c' Boarflj, Hibbard G.james '45, Nicholas Viek '46, Edmund R. Davis '46. Sc'comlRo1u.' William F. Di Pesa '46 fTrcarrn'erD, Martin Shwartz '44 fVire Prariflmtj, Charles R. Dean '46 QPrt'riflrwtj, William B. Dubey '46 fSccrclar-yj. Front Rozwjolmn U. Lemmon, III '47 fE.W'L'lllillL' Boarzll, Morton B. Hamilton V-12, Theodore P. Allegretti '47 fE.vefutizfe Boardj. 12721

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---uns-U-gl v ,V ' x Gil Hill '46 pauses for station identification. The voices of former Network announcers are now heard over many com- mercial stations. Radio Network, Spring, 1947. Bark Row: Robert C. Seaver '50, David P. Kni ht '50, Robert W. Hall '49 fClar.riml MllJiL',,JOhD S. Kornfeld '49, Theodore Storfdard '50, Robert L. Wechsler '49,,Iohn V. Bouyoucos '49, Gerald E. Weller '49, Arthur S. Bunker, jr. '49. Third Row: Melvin H. Gordon '48, Alfred L. Cotcher '48, Lawrence Creshkoff '46, Hallowell Bowser '44, Andrew R. Baggaley '45, Theodore L. Rowland '48, William R. Chanderl '46, Harold C. Fleming '44, Gilbert S. Hill '46 CPnblirityD. Serond Row: Leonard M, Passano, Ill '46, Harold per, Guthrie McClintic, Margie Hart, Carol Bruce, Ann Corio, Pete Seeger, Charles Bolte, and numerous others. Members of the Harvard Faculty have also been regular per- formers, especially during 1946-1947, Armchair Audit, a program of repeat performances of popular course lectures, brought many professorial voices to the air. On another oc- casion, President Conant spoke on the need for Federal aid to education. The Apron Strings Are Cut In 1945, when Shepherd Hall was torn clown, the Net- work moved to new studios in Dudley Hall, and began using call letters WHCN on the air. But, by spring 1947, the Net- work had freed itself from the Crim.ron'J apron strings, and existing confusion among both advertisers and students sug- gested deleting Crimson from the station's name. So, in the fall of 1947, the Harvard Radio Network went on the air for the first time, with call letters WHRV. Simultaneously with the change of name there began an expansion program designed to give the Network complete coverage of the col- lege. A new transmitter was built and wires laid to Yard dormitories, so that thereafter lowly freshmen as well as elite House-dwellers might hear the strains of Fair Harvard every evening at 7:30, when the Network resumes broadcasting activities. Continuing to grow under its new name, the Net- work is still planning more and better entertainment for its listeners and offering increased possibilities for training, ex- perience, and camaraderie to its members. L. C. P. Field '46, William F. Clark '48 fPf'0gl'tHll Mur1agerD,,Iord1ln L. Golding '48, fBu.rineJJ Munagerj, Gerald Y. Genn '48 fPre.ri1lenlj, Albert F. Feldman '48 fPro- duction Directorj, T. M. Sanders,jr. '48 fTt'L'hIlifdl Directorj, Philip M. Stern '47, Ray A. Goldberg '48, From Row: john Kunz '49, Louis I. Egelson, jr. '48, Clifton R. Wharton, jr. '47, john C. Fraser '50, M. Matthew Lynch, jr. '50, Alfred G. Redheld '50,john A. Magnuson,jr. '49. 12711

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But No Suitable Theater tion of Synge's Playhoy of the Wertern World in the spring of 1944, and in the fall Owen Wingrave, rearranged by Professor F. O. Matthiessen from Henry james' Saloon, and presented together with Alfred de Musset's short play A Door Mart he Either Open or Shut. With the invaluable co-operation of the Radcliffe Idler, the HDC achieved financial as well as artistic success in all three productions. The year 1945 was notable for HDC's first Shake- spearian venture in some time, Mach Ado Ahout Nothing, adapted by Club Advisor Professor Theodore Spencer, di- rected by Dr. Fritz jessner, and starring William Sullivan. Another classical play, Moliere's The Miranthrope, followed in the fall, and both were well received by the Boston critics. The acting of Robert A. Loeb stood out in both plays, and able supporting casts included Robert E. Miller, Hibbard james, and Seabury Quinn. The HDC began a tradition of student direction in 1946, as William A. West produced Maxwell Anderson's Winterret, with supervision by Club President Charles Mans- field '46, and capable acting on the part of Loeb, Theodore P. Allegretti, Ted Benedict, Edward Franklin, Andrew McCul- lough, and john Simon '46. McCullough acted as student director for the forthcoming HDC productions, the Capeks' Adam the Creator, Odets' Waiting for Lej5'y, Saroyan's short sketch The Ping-Pong Playeri, and O'Casey's jano and the Payeoch. A consistent star, Ted Allegretti '47, was elected Dramatic Club, 1947. Bath Row: Austryn Wainhouse '48,john P. Boland '48, David H. Kelly '49, Ed Davis '46, William D. Watters '49, Emery H. Niles,Jr. '49, Johhn M. Linley '48, Robert L. Wechsler '49, Paul A. Mayer '49, Richard S. Milsrern '48, Second Row: David W. Self '48, Clinton G. Heiner '48, Ralph P. Katz '48 Martin Schwartz '44, Robert M. Cipes '50, Alvin Kahn '49, Francis L. Kafka '49, Richard H. Kimball, jr. '50, Christopher M. Martin '49, J. Bradley jerry Kilty '48 is hoisted on his horse as Falstaff in the Theater Workshop production of Henry IV. president of the Club, and directed the 1947 HDC production of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy ofthe People. Saint joan Wins Fame for HTW Nineteen hundred and forty-six also saw the birth of the Harvard Theatre Workshop and its first production, Ger- hardi's I War a King in Bahylon. Finding Harvard audiences somewhat apathetic, the Workshop polled College playgoers' tastes, and in response to popular demand presented in spring, 1947 Bernard Shaw's Saint joan. Undaunted by the formid- Cumings, Ill '46, Front Row: Warren C. Ingersoll '48, Robert A. Loeb '48, Robert S. Miller '48 Q Vire Preridentj, Andrew McCullough '45 fExeeutizfe Boardl, Theodore P. Allegretti '47 fPre.fidentj, Robert C. Kingston '48 QE.vemtizfe Boardl, Yardley D. Buckman '49 fSetre1aryD, Theodore L. Rowland '48, Pau! S. Burggraf '48, Alfred M. Weisberg '47. 12731-