Hamlet, Eliot Feature 1st HDC Record Series

The first in a new series of "Open Meetings of the Dramatic Club" will take place at 3:00 p.m. this afternoon in the Fogg Large Lecture Room. Frederick C. Packard, associate professor of Public Speaking and Curator of the Harvard Vocarium Collection, will play recordings of Gielgud's "Hamlet," Oxford University's "King Lear," and T. S. Eliot's Theodore Spencer Lecture.

Other guest speakers at future meetings will include William Van Leunes Curator of the Theatre Collection. Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Orctory.