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Tonight at 7.45 o'clock in the Pi Eta Theatre, the 47 Workshop will present the second and last performances of the four one-act plays written by the University and Radcliffe students in English 17. The plays will conclude the third production of the year for the members of the 47 Workshop, acting under the direction of Professor George Pierce Baber...
There will be a distinct war aspect to the four one-act plays to be given at the third private performances of the 47 Workshop tonight and tomorrow night at 7.45 o'clock in the Pi Eta Theatre. Three of the plays--"Every Man's Bit," "The Readjustment" and "Free Speech"--deal either directly or indirectly with subjects growing out of the war. All of them are written, acted and managed by students of Professor Baker's English 47 course...
Tomorrow's production will be a set of four one-act plays written by students in English 47. The first of the plays, "Every Man's Bit," was written by Miss Lois Compton of Radcliffe. Hubert Osborne, Sp., holder of the MacDowell Fellowship in Dramatic Composition, is the author of the second playlet, entitled "The Readjustment." The third composition, "Dayspring," is by J. R. Freome, Sp., and the final production, "Free Speech," is by W. L. Prosser...
...laying down platitudes for principles. In general, it takes the ground that doubts should be resolved in favor of the teacher, who, however, when he violates the letter or the spirit of the law, should be suspended or dismissed without waiting for the officers of the Government to act. The forceful parts of the report are those upholding the right and the advantage of public discussion of the objects of a war and the methods of conducting it, and pointing out the weakness of persecution as a "means for extirpating or repressing honest error, however grave and dangerous the error...
...elect to attend "The Very Idea" for its mid-winter theatre party, but that's not saying it's an improper show. Vicarious parentage is ordinarily not an appropriate topic among the very best people, but William LeBaron, to whom this very idea was born, has spun three acts of good fun and humorous complication. Having resolved to poke fun at eugenics and its converts, he has only to introduce the child in the final act to hoist the humor to its climax. Which he does, and very deftly...