ACTION AT LEAST

The Dramatic Club's decision yesterday to produce henceforth plays by Harvard undergraduates is significant in being an abandonment of its former fruitful policy. The club's productions in the last few years have been interesting and unusual; they have ranged over a wide field; they have often introduced playwrights hitherto unknown to the American stage and always they have presented plays never before seen in this country. Drama, like music, of foreign contemporaries is all too seldom given, and since the club has offered such opportunities, local audiences have shown marked appreciation.

The 47 Workshop plays have generally been indigenous to America. Their production, furthermore, has always been something in the nature of an experiment. Doubtless the same, only to a larger degree, would hold true of purely undergraduate efforts. The foreign plays which the Dramatic Club has hitherto produced have been well past the testing stage--have been the work of playwrights whose creative powers have reached a dramatic maturity. To abandon the latter seems regrettable. But disregarding the mooted wisdom of the decision, the Dramatic Club is to he commended for its honest effort to meet the needs of the present situation, instead of adding to the crowded files of ineffectual protest.