Word: eatonized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heard Mr. Eaton, of critical fame, give a lecture recently in which he stigmatized Boston as a "leg-show-town"; adding forthwith that so few good plays visit the city because the good plays always fall to fill their theatres. A none too subtle comment on the intellectuality of Boston...
...year's slump, by holding this position behind the Yale flier until the end of the six laps, when he was only a yard behind. M. H. Wilson, taking the place of Campbell on the Yale team, was second, and opened up a 35-yard lead over W. F. Eaton '22. J. W. Burke '23, running third man for the Crimson, instead of anchor, against E. Vander Pyl was able to make up all but five yards of this on his opponent, and J. E. Merrill '24 started the final turn close on the heels of M. K. Douglas...
...solution is offered by Mr. Eaton as a remedy for this state of affairs, namely the greater stimulation of dramatics in the various colleges. "There is no use in looking to the professional theatres", he declared. "Entertainment must come through an appeal to the intelligence of the audience, such as can never be found in the movies; and the best vehicle for the expression of this appeal is the spoken drama as presented by earnest amateurs...
These "Little Theatres" seem to Mr. Eaton to be the fore-runners of a great revival in dramatics among our institutions of learning. "It looks like a very hopeful start", he said. "I think it is pretty well established in the minds of education now that the study of the drama is not a fad. Particularly in the far West are people beginning to realize the importance of giving the creative artist a chance to follow his own bent. People realize that this is a mechanical and industrial age, and that none of us have much play for our creative...
...with a brilliant genius for creative artistry should run so grave a risk of hampering his chances for a successful dramatic career as to attend college". In these words Mr. Walter Prichard Eaton, in another column of this issue phrases one of the most striking condemnations of the most striking condemnation of the American College ever uttered. The cultural background and intellectual interests which are essential to the dramatist, he finds lacking in the ordinary college graduate. Inasmuch as the latter is expected to have acquired both of these as a result of his college course, it would seem...