Word: barker
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Dance Committee has been appointed as follows: William Henry Meeker, of New York, N. Y. (chairman); William Torrey Barker, of Cambridge; Norman Elwell Burbidge, of Spokane, Wash.; Henry Bromfield Cabot, Jr., of Brookline; Herbert Bartlett Courteen, of Milwaukee, Wis.; Thomas Hooper Eckfeldt, Jr., of Concord; Jose Calderon Harris, of Brookline; Richard Harte, of Philadelphia, Pa.; Leslie Price Jacobs, of Laramie, Wyo.; Henry Whitney Minot, of Boston; John Edward Parsons Morgan, of New York, N. Y.; Theodore Holton Rice, of Brookline; Samuel Powers Sears, of Quincy; James Paul Warburg, of Washington...
Granville Barker, the English producer of modern dramas and reviver of Shakespearian and Greek plays, spoke to an audience of 600 people in the New Lecture Hall on "Ideas in the Theatre" last night. The lecture was scheduled to be given in Emerson D, but several hundred persons were unable to get in, and the New Lecture Hall, with greater seating capacity, was used...
...theatre," Mr. Barker said, "is at its best when the play is regarded by the people not as a curious and exotic thing, carried on behind a row of footlights, but as a perfectly natural expression of the people themselves, handed over to experts. Acting does not mean pretending to be something else; it means interpreting something you are, or have assimilated through the medium of your personality. An actor playing his part is doing no more than a judge who interprets justice...
...Barker also believes that the the are should be a community product, and that as such it is the highest expression of public emotion. He is not in favor of the single lead "star" system which tends to develop a one-sided drama. Nor does he approve of the long engagement as tending to destroy the art of the theatrical profession...
...Granville Barker in Emerson...