HDC 'Juno' Hits Boards of Pudding Club Tonight as Five Day Run Opens

Abandoning Sanders Theatre, scene of its former production, the Harvard Dramatic Club moves to the Hasty Pudding Club House tonight for its presentation of Sean O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock." The curtain rises in the Holyoke Street establishment at 8:30 o'clock.

The HDC production, which ends its five-day run Saturday with a matinee and evening performance, has Theodore Allegretti '47 and Helen McClosky starring in roles of "Captain" Jack Boyle and Juno Boyle, his wife.

When the show starts tonight, seated in the first row will be J. Jay Hughes '48, who with an astute eye recognized "Miss Juno," and won for his pains a date with Ray Nichols, Miss Massachusetts of 1946.

The cast:

Theodore Allegretti '47 as "Captain" Jack Boyle; Helen McCloskey as Juno Boyle; Robert C. Seaver '50 as Johnny Boyle; Barbara Nathan, Radcliffe '48, as Mary Boyle; Walter Frank '49, as "Joxer" Daly; Mary Flannery as Mrs. Mary Madigan; Christopher Martin '49 as "Needles" Nugent.

Judith Nelson, Radcliffe '49, as Mrs. Tancred; J. Bradley Cuming 3rd '46 as Jerry Devine; Robert Lubchansky '48 as Charlie Bentham; Robert L. Wechsler '49 as an irregular mobilizer; Palmer Dixon '50 and Robert Claflin '50 as two irregulars; Dixon as a coal block vender; Arthur S. Bunker, Jr. '49 as a sewing machine man and a furniture removal man; Jay Levine '50 as a furniture removal man; Anna A. Prince, Radcliffe '48 and Lorn Slocombe as neighbors.