Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger members. Herbert J. Biberman, onetime Guild stage manager and product of Professor George Pierce Baker's Yale School of Drama, directed the play and appears to great advantage as the sardonic, vicious Terekhine...
...Atlanta, Cleveland, telling of complaints against the book, threats to withdraw custom unless sale of the book was stopped, testifying to the effective activities of Christian Science Committees on Publication. Author Thompson reminded his readers of the fate of an earlier biography of Mrs. Eddy, The Memoirs of Mary Baker Eddy, by Adam & Lillian S. Dickey, published in 1927 by the Merrymount Press of Boston. This book was recalled at the behest of the Board of Directors of the Mother Church in Boston so thoroughly that now only four copies exist...
What Christian Scientists have objected to in all but the authorized life of Mrs. Eddy (The Life of Mary Baker Eddy by Sibyl Wilbur) are alleged misstatements, "obnoxious," libelous, about the founder of Christian Science. Author Dakin's book says that Mary Baker Eddy plagiarized, took morphine, made no miraculous cures...
...twenty years now the Harvard Dramatic Club has been at work doing original plays and plays new to America or to Boston. For many years overshadowed by Professor Baker's 47 Workshop, of late it must be recognized as the only organization at Harvard that takes the slightest interest in the drama. Its work has always been serious, often extraordinarily fine, and occasionally important. In the Harvard of today, where there seems so little interest in and encouragement of literature, on the part of either undergraduates or authorities, the Dramatic Club deserves attention and patronage
This movement to give Harvard a practical school of the theatre was begun in order that the gap left by the departure of George Pierce Baker and his 47 Workshop might be filled. Tonight's meeting was the culmination of a long period of work by Harvard undergraduates who felt the need of such a school, and have been engaged for several months in sounding the student body of the University with regard to the possible, establishment of such a course of study. The plans which were completed tonight call for a course to be given during the second half...