Hint to Dramatic Club

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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

The Harvard Dramatic Club has furnished the university with many escapes from the academic world. It has led us from Wild West Nebraska to Central Asia, from the most backward part of Mexico to the most advanced section of Hollywood. Except for a musical comedy, its more recent productions have been off-center to the border of insanity; the tortured hero of "Hassan" shared with the disillusioned Tolstoyan of "Flesta" in straining the sense of probability. After such a series of primitives, sometimes merry but always extravagant, we may well return to life as we know it or at latest to the realm of a disciplined and central imagination. Even should it choose to disregard the perplexity of a bewildered public, the Dramatic Club would seem to owe to its members the opportunity to show that they are not really morons, even though they have acted the part for the last several productions. Situated with both cast and academic audience able and ready to grasp subtlety of characterization and of plot, it is to be hoped that this fall the Club will bring Harvard Drama out of the dregs of strange and usually blood thirsty societies into an intelligent civilization. H. C. F. '31