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...actively interested in this plan for giving preliminary performances of promising plays by present and former pupils of Professor Baker before the final working over of the plays for professional production, are: Miss Florence Lincoln, author of the first Craig prize play, "The End of the Bridge"; J. F. Ballard, A.M. '11, author of "Believe Me, Xantippe"; Elizabeth McFadden, author of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander...
...Dramatic Club has selected the following four plays for its spring production: "Chuck" by Percy Mackaye '97; "Good News" by J. F. Ballard uC., the author of "Believe Me, Xantippe!"; "The Wedding Dress" by Katharine McDowell Rice, Radcliffe; "The Romance of the Rose" by J. S. Hugh '13 and W. F. Merrill '13. Owing to the postponement of its spring production, the Dramatic Club was unable to secure Brattle Hall; accordingly, the Hasty Pudding Club courteously extended the use of its theatre for the two Cambridge performances on the evening of May 6 and 7, respectively. The third performance will...
...Believe Me, Xantippo!", a melodramatic farce by Frederick Ballard, formerly a graduate student here, is the third of the plays to receive the prize offered by Mr. John Craig to dramatists of Harvard and Radcliffe, and the first to come from a Harvard writer. On Monday last it began an indefinite run at the Castle Square Theatre, Boston, presented by Mr. Craig and his stock company...
...Ballard's four acts, only the second and last succeed in getting the proper response from the audience; nor is this owing to any lack of situation, for the playwright is blessed with a fertile imagination, but rather to the fact that he has failed to make the best of what he had in hand. The first act, for instance, is talky in the extreme. Before there can be a play the audience must know that the apartment of Mr. George MacFarland, wealthy New Yorker, has been robbed, that he is thoroughly disgusted with the stupidity of the police...
...John Craig annual Prize Play will be offered to the public, and all signs indicate that the latest one will repeat the success of "The End of the Bridge" and "The Product of the Mill." It is a strongly effective and original comedy from the pen of John Frederick Ballard, and it touches American life and manners with a light and sure hand. It never oversteps the bounds of legitimate humor, and its dramatic moments are on a high and perfectly rational plan. All its happenings are possible, and the dialogue is lifelike and brilliant...