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...speech last night at the Union, Basil Dean, the visiting English theatrical producer, touched briefly on the constantly recurring cycles of the drama; he explained the new movement, especially that of Soviet Russia; and closed by a review of the defects and merits of the present theatre organization, both here and in England...
...feel very strongly that the future of the English-speaking stage lies here. It is vital, and it is young," said Basil Dean in turung from the problems of England to those of this country. Eugene O'Neil, he considered America's first great author. The Little Theatre, an American movement spreading rapidly over England and the Continent, he declared valuable because it tends to keep the professional stage in touch with the world at large...
Tomorrow evening at 7.00 o'clock Basil Dean O.B. E., noted English producer, will speak in the Faculty Room of the Union under the auspices of the Harvard Dramatic Club. Although the Dramatic Club's open meeting which will officially launch its 1925-26 season does not come until next week, all members of the University interested in the theatre are invited to attend...
Eduardo Sauchez '26, President of the Dramatic Club, speaking of the producer's visit, said: "The Dramatic Club is fortunate in being able to secure Basil Dean for tomorrow's meeting at the Union. His visit is especially significant at this time as Galsworthy's "Forest," a play now being considered for production by the Dramatic Club, had its most notable presentation in London under the man who tomorrow will speak at the Union...
...Basil Dean, who is an officer of the Order of the British Empire, has devoted his whole life to the theatre. Besides being the author of numerous plays and pamphlets, among them "Marriages Are Made in Heaven," "The Love Cheats," and more recently "Fifinella." Mr. Dean has been joint managing director of the Drury Lane Theatre in London since 1924 and managing director of St. Martin's Theatre, also in London. Before the war, he was director of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, and at the outbreak of hostilities, joined the Cheshire Regiment. In 1916 he attained the rank of captain...