Word: eatonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Prichard Eaton '00, dramatic critic of the New York Sun and the New York Tribune, and a recent speaker at the Union, has taken the presentation of the Dramatic Club's "Mr. Paraclete" on Tuesday as the occasion for setting forth his views on the new movement in the drama, in particular as they apply to the universities and colleges of the country...
...present Mr. Eaton is engaged in a country-wide crusade against stage slang such as appears in "The Butter and Egg Man," "Is Zat So?," and other New York successes. His contention is that plays using such slang, though sometimes really worth while, will never live, simply because in a few years, these slang phrases will have changed, and will be entirely unintelligible to the theatre audiences ten years hence...
Walter Prichard Eaton '90 will speak in the Living Room of the Union on Tuesday evening, November 3, it was announced last night by the Union management. His subject will be "The Theatre of Yesterday and Today...
...Eaton, besides being the author of many books on out-of-door life, is a dramatic journalist of considerable repute. Following his graduation in 1900, Mr. Eaton immediately became a reporter for the Boston Journal. Since then he has been dramatic critic for the New York Tribune, and the New York Sun. At present he is on the staff of the American Magazine, and often contributes to H. L. Mencken's American Mercury...
This work, if continued from year to year, is expected by Librarian C. C. Eaton '02, to be invaluable in building up a Business School Library in which the desired information may be as readily found as in any fully catalogued collection of books...