Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Arthur Pope '01 will address the 47 Workshop in Massachusetts Hall at 8 o'clock Sunday evening. His subject will be connected with stage design. The meeting will be open to members of the Workshop, the workers there, and men taking courses with Professor G. P. Baker...
...laying his finger on the weaknesses of present day drams. Professor Baker yesterday also raised an interesting point in connection with the purpose of drama itself. He pointed out that the great dramatic of America today is a good theatre, giving good plays to an audience of eclectic taste. That fault of the day in American dram is the lack of standards a play being considered for its business qualifications rather than its art. The solution Professor Baker feels lies with more and more producers with a purpose beyond more money making; producers of the type of Winthrop Ames. Arthur...
...Baker pointed out that this slavery to the public can easily be broken by the producers if they were to consider their productions less of a business proposition, and if they attempted to educate their audiences to a proper sense...
This, Mr. Baker said, was an opportunity for the college man. His education has given him the taste for true art and has enabled him to produce plays of artistic value which will attract the public. The speaker used "Liliom", a recent Theatre Guild production as an example...
Professor G. P. Baker '87 then gave a short speech, laying great stress on learning the lines accurately and quickly. He said, however, "acting is not reciting lines but creating character". "The first job of the actor is to get out of himself and into the other self" created by the author. Professor Baker emphasized the necessity of reading the whole play before trying to learn a part. This would enable the actor to get an idea of his own part in relation to the rest of the production. "A part is like a musical note...