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...actors, at Washington Court, 51 Brattle street, this evening at 8 o'clock. H. von Kalten-born '09 will act as toastmaster. Professor G. L. Kittredge '82 will speak on "The Relations of the Historic Drama to Modern Plays," and Professor G. P. Baker '87 on "The College Dramatist." A. Davis '07, author of "The Promised Land," R. M. Middlemass '09, who played the leading part, and D. Gardiner 2L., president of the Dramatic Club, will also make short speeches...
Percy W. Mackaye '97, whose tragedy "Sappho and Phaon" is reviewed below has attained the reputation of a dramatist and poet of no mean ability. After graduating from Harvard he studied and traveled abroad for three years. On returning to America he was engaged in teaching in New York City but since 1904 he has devoted his time almost exclusively to writing plays. He is the author of two works on "The Canterbury Tales" of Chancer, "Fonris the Wolf, a Tragedy," and "Joan d'Are," which has been produced by Mr. E. H. Sothern and Miss Marlowe in America...
...last a reality. The language societies occupy a sphere of their own; club theatricals, with one possible exception, are of a purposely trivial sort; but the Harvard Dramatic Club, open to the best talent of the entire University, presents a new field for the rising actor and dramatist. Its productions, we trust, will be of a more earnest and useful type than has yet been attempted; and will, therefore, appeal widely to the more serious side of the University. We extend our best wishes to the organizers for the success they deserve...
...Beta Kappa oration will be delivered this year by H. H. Furness '88, and the poem by P. W. Mackaye '97. Mr. Furness is one of the greatest living Shakespeare scholars and Mr. Mackaye is a well-known dramatist and poet. The exercises will be held in Sanders Theatre on Thursday, June 25, the day after Commencement...
...Phillips, by J. T. Addison, goes, without question, to the heart of the whole matter. By means of admirable selections the writer demonstrates Mr. Phillips's virtues and defects as a poet; and continuing classes him as a playwright--one versed in the theatrical--as opposed to a real dramatist--an objective student of character. The comparison with Shakespeare, urged for the purpose of bringing out Mr. Phillips's dramatic flimsiness, might easily have been made more illuminating by slightly profounder meditation...