Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Workshop at Smith was founded seven years ago on the model of Professor Baker's "47 Workshop" at Harvard. Professor Eliot who originated the Workshop at the Northampton college, had much experience in producing plays before he joined the Smith faculty. He worked for a year with Winthrop Ames in New York, and later directed Little Theatre companies in Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and has edited several volumes of one-act plays, published as "The Little Theatre Classics." At Harvard he studied under his uncle, Professor Baker...
...York, will be employed for practice, and the Blue will hold most of its important contests there. When the New York rink is not available for Yale's use, advantage will be taken of the offer of the Princeton Athletic Association to permit them the use of the Hobey Baker Memorial Arena at Princeton...
...mercurial wife; his manual-laboring friends. Frau Zwenge sells sheet music against her husband's will. With the years this business prospers, dislodges him from his workbench, drives him into a corner of her store. It is the same with his old friends. The cigarmaker's sons, the baker's, install machinery. Mass production, money, is the pulse of the city. There are immigrants by the thousand to buy, to push the older immigrants up the social and economic scale...
...baker dies, true to a fanaticism for cremation. His deathbed plea cleanses Karl and he pushes the Crucifixion to an immense conclusion, only to have it denounced as a plagiarism on the day's jazz. Then more irony, the War?and Karl home after it with the sorrows of Germany in his pale face, needing convalescence like the world...
...There can be no doubt that work such as is done in the designing of Dramatic Club scenery is of substantial value. Men who worked in Professor Baker's 47 Workshop and in the Dramatic Club have often met immediate success in professional work in New York. Umschlager, who did the work in "The Life of Man," went to New York last year and did several sets for the Theatre Guild that have received widespread approbation. Robert Edmond Jones, a graduate of 1910, is a case in point...