Word: baker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week in Cleveland it was announced that the editors of defunct Parade, local weekly. would begin publishing The Midweek Pictorial Review. Promised for each issue (gratis) was an article by another inactive major politico, Newton Diehl Baker. *The conservative eastern wing of Democracy dreads nothing so much as the possible appointment of William Gibbs McAdoo as Secretary of the Treasury. Last week ''positive assurances" emanated from the Roosevelt camp that under no circumstances would Mr. McAdoo be let into a Roosevelt Cabinet. In Washington there was speculation to the effect that John William Davis might be made...
...were at their height, Brother Mantis was off duckshooting and Brother Oris was calmly addressing New England Governors on the way he would like to see consolidation come about (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). Dexterous financial management and the strong backing of J. P. Morgan & Co. and the George Fisher Baker interests have apparently enabled the "Vans" to resist the forces of disintegration...
Since the departure of George Pierce Baker and the "47 Workshop" a number of years ago, there has been little outlet for undergraduate playwrights. Last year, the Harvard Dramatic Club continued its policy of going afield for its material, and produced Hasonclaver's "Napoleon Intrudes." This year, according to reports, the club plans to produce the work of a professional. Although the decision has been made as far as this fall is concerned, it is worth considering whether the production of plays by professionals is the best permanent policy...
...custom of Professor Baker to put on only plays written by his students. And although he lacked an adequate theater, he was nevertheless able to produce his plays successfully. Many a young playwright had the satisfaction of seeing his piece staged by the talent of Mr. Baker. Nor was it unusual for New York managers to buy a particularly good play...
Though undergraduates have, apparently, ceased writing drama, it is impossible to believe that Mr. Baker's disappearance from Cambridge and the recent discontinuance of the short-lived School of the Drama have killed all desire for dramatic creation. There must be some among almost three thousand students who can and do write plays. If the Dramatic Club were to produce the best of those submitted by students, the author would gain a kind of experience especially valuable at a certain period of development. The very fact that in the past there have emerged from the student body such dramatists...