'Oh Dad, Poor Dad' Set Smashed By Misguided Radcliffe Workmen

Oh Ritchie, poor Ritchie, the Agassiz janitors have broken your set and we're feelin' so sad.

Ritchie (Michael B. '60), and the set (of Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad by Arthur L. Kopit '59) were both broken up when the former made a chance visit to the closed Agassiz building several days ago.

The director of the Adams House production, which is scheduled to open Thursday, said that "not only had the set been taken down, but it had been ripped into little pieces which were left strewn all over the stage.' The scenery, which was finished before the Christmas recess, had taken ten days to build.

At first, Ritchie thought that vandals had broken into Agassiz. The truth, he discovered was that an order by a Radcliffe Operating Services superintendent to take down The Mikado set had been "misunderstood." Radcliffe has admitted responsibility for the damage and will pay for reconstruction of the set, valued at $100.

After the discovery of the broken set, a small crew of Adams House men worked until midnight New Year's Eve to rebuilt it, despite the absence of the designer and technical director, William E. Schroeder '60.