Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gift of E. S. Harkness, the new Theatre is the principal adjunct to the activities of the Workshop, transferred a few years ago from the University to Yale. The following article describing the theatre and Professor Baker's work at Yale was written by J. J. Rorlmer '27, a former member of the Workshop who attended last week's performance...
...seen the dreams that we hoped for Harvard realised of a sister institution. We did not go to hold a post-mortem, but to see the new spirit which has been breathed into an already live undertaking. The papers have told us of the hopes that Professor George Pierce Baker '87, but recently of Harvard and now Director of Dramatic Art at Yale, had for the art of the stage and the fostering of the higher ideals of dramatic art in our academic environment. During Mr. Baker's leave of absence for a year many enthusiastic Harvard undergraduates, graduates...
Time passed; there seemed little hope that the 47 Workshop was going to have the facilities which the advantages of modern stagecraft afford. Then came the calm at one of the least hopeful moments in the storm. Professor Baker had accepted, now that Harvard would not or could not furnish him with an equipment, an extremely generous offer from Yale. The funds and plans were arranged: Yale, Mr. Harkness and Professor Baker had announced their mutual willingnes to cooperate in a plan which for almost fourteen years had been the hope and goal of many American people--devotees...
...nervous system" of the Shop, the stage workers and designers, the invited audience of old 47 days invaded New Haven with purely academic and scholastic interest. We came for a grand reunion, to see friends and fellow-enthusiasts of some years ago, but especially to show Mr. Baker and Yale how pleased we were to see what we had worked and hoped for put into practice...
...three hundred were active followers of the temporary 47 Workshop. For the five opening performances on Friday, Saturday and Monday over five thousand people from the theatre and interested world at large were invited. The "Patriarch," a West Virginia mountain tragedy, by Boyd M. Smith, who was with Professor Baker at Harvard, was chosen for the opening; and although this is not the place for a discussion of the play, it is pleasing to note that it was bought for New York production at the end of the second act on the first night of performance...