Spring Playgoing Made Easy for University Students by Revised Policy of Ticket Agency

Theater-goers among the student body will find ticket purchasing more convenient during the Spring semester, according to a new policy of operation announced by the Harvard Ticket Agency yesterday.

Beginning this week, ticket-seekers may place their orders, accompanied by the full purchase price, at the Agency's Phillips Brooks House office at any time during the day, Monday through Friday. Receipts, which are exchanged at the theater box office for tickets, may be picked up by the applicant during the Agency's regular office hours, 1:30 to 3 o'clock, Monday through Friday.

In announcing the new policy, Lawrence R. Klepper '49, Chairman of the Ticket Committee, warned that "it is important for students to realize that placing an order does not guarantee obtaining the desired seats."

He stressed the fact that, while the PBH-sponsored service usually can obtain better seats than are available at the box office, his organization cannot be expected to procure tickets for performances that have alrealy been sold out. As an added service, a daily notice of soldout performances will be posted on the door to the PBH office.

Since its inception in September, 1946, the ticket office has steadily grown in popularity and now carried on a $750 per week business.

The office-began at the start of the fall term in modest dimensions as the brain-child of a group of Brooks House members who felt that the trip into Boston for theater tickets could be by-passed by members of the University without any serious loss. Managers of Hub theaters fell in with the ticket agency plan, which they foresaw as a selling aid.