The barrage of verbal tomatoes, cabbages, and assorted fruit that hit the fan following the final curtain of "I Was a King in Babylon" was received with unusual graciousness and good spirit by the Veterans Theatre Workshop. "Shamelessly and unabashedly" confessing that activity around the box-office is a necessity for continued life, the Workshop --pessimistically prophesying, at the same time, that even "the best production of the finest classic would see the same Harvard student body staying away in droves"--is frankly asking the dinner crowd at House dining halls to choose their next production.

Although you might be tempted to treat the neatly-printed from as merely light reading over a trayful of baked macaroni and cheese, this little questionnaire has been gotten up with an extremely sensible care. The first question, for example, runs: "Are you interested in attending student-produced plays at Harvard? Yes? No?" There's the whole problem. You can circle "No" and concentrate on the macaroni. If you consider yourself a wit, there's plenty of shiny white space and a number of detailed questions that can be answered hilariously with a fine-pointed pencil.

But if you're interested and in all probability you will be the rest of the sheet is divided into two section: Classic and Modern. The Veterans Theatre people ask you which one you prefer and offer suggestions in each category. If your glasses are rimless and your suit shiny, you might stay with the "Classics" and choose Sophocles or Shakespeare or ask for Corneille in the original. If your father is a tie-salesman in Union Square, you'll find Odets given liberal recognition in the "Modern" section. And if you're one of those people who thinks "they're all so good I don't know which one to choose," you can chose any and all even unto "Pins and Needles."