`Oh Dad' Wins Prize; To Open in February

Arthur L. Kopit '59 has been awarded First Prize in the Adams House Play-writing Competition. His original play, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, will open in the House next February.

Kopit is the author of The Questioning of Nick, The Runway of Life, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, and Aubade, all presented at Harvard in recent years. He is currently on a Shaw Travelling Fellowship in Europe.

Stephen Aaron '57 and Melvin Maddocks, drama critic of the Christian Science Monitor, awarded Oh Dad, Poor Dad, the $150 prize as the best of ten plays submitted to the competition.