Idler Panel Sees Need of Theater

Moderator Harry T. Levin, professor of English, summed up the opinions of six panel speakers at last night's Idler drama forum as "general unanimity to the propsition that we need a College theater; how we can get it must be saved for another day."

After Miss Helen Maud Cam, Radcliffe Professor of History, and Frank Day Tuttle, professor of Drama at Smith College, extolled the work of the Arts Theater at Cambridge University, England, and of the active drama department at Smith, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Brattle Theater Director Jerome T. Kilty '49, came to the defense of dramatic activity at Harvard. Kilty claimed University support and guidance a necessary factor but said he felt a separate dramatic department would detract from the regular general Harvard education.

Matthiessen Wants Theatre

Matthiessen especially urged the building of a theater here. Past presidents Lowell and Eliot refused to set up a theater and dramatic department, but Levin stated that there was a good chance that the present administration might pass a proposal for a theater.