Word: dramas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spring of 1908 by E. B. Sheldon, R. E. Rogers, D. Carb and others, for the purpose of giving original plays by Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates and recent graduates. It has been of great moral value in that it has stimulated the interest of students of the drama, and it has been of great practical value in that it has given them an opportunity to put their theoretical knowledge to an actual test. The so-called "47 Workshop" was founded last winter as an adjunct to Professor Baker's course in dramatic composition. Except perhaps that it lays more emphasis...
...Rogers '09. Prof. G. P. Baker in whose course all of the plays were written, believes that they will be of unusual interest. Mr. Ballard's sketch, in contrast with his other work, is in a serious vein, and "Ygraine of the Hill-folk" is the second drama in verse which the club has ever produced...
...first performance of the "The Child", the new drama by Elizabeth McFadden--author of the second Craig prize play, "The Product of the Mill"--will be staged in Boston for the first time, at the Plymouth Theatre tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Matinees will be given on Thursday and Saturday at 2 o'clock. The play, in three acts, will be produced by Harrison Grey Fiske...
...drama, "The Child," by Elizabeth McFadden, author of the second Craig prize play, "The Product of the Mill," will be staged for the first time in Boston, when the play opens at the Plymouth Theatre, Wednesday evening...
...drama is in three acts and is described as a play of contemporaneous life in the Middle West. The story is about a baby adopted by a childless couple who come upon it during a flood. The two have sunk low in degeneracy and hope to obtain an inheritance by pretending the child to be their own. Through the rest of the plot, the influence of the child causes a gradual regeneration. The scenes are laid in Cincinnati during a time of flood, and in an Ohio farmhouse...