Theatrical Beehive

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Those who are still asking, "Does Harvard really need a theatre?" will find a good answer in yesterday's CRIMSON. In a brief notice column, The Playwrights' Group gave notice that two parts are still available in its original production; an outdoor production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was announced; rehearsal was called for "Darkness at Noon"--one of the most technically complicated of modern scripts, to be produced in Sanders "Theatre"; Winthrop House announced its annual Gilbert & Sullivan production. The Poets' Theatre is planning its second production of the year, with rehearsals in the basement of a local bookstore and production in the Christ Church Parish House, and the Classics Club is announcing its annual play, to be produced in Radcliffe's tiny Agassiz Theatre.

At the same time, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Glee Club both carry on rehearsals, in every case far from their main base and library in Paine Hall, Ivy Films continues its instructive film series for members, on the top floor of P.B.H.

And in the Council office, a "student committee on the public arts" meets at the witching hour of 5 o'clock, presumably to plot in darkness how to do what little a student committee can do to remedy the complicated situation represented by the fact that HARVARD STILL HAS NO THEATRE. J. David Bowen '51