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...heads of several Cambridge people who had written verse-plays. They had not been able to see them on a stage because no one with enough capital was very eager to risk it on verse-plays. Early in 1950 these writers drifted into a unit at poet Richard Eberhart's house and elected him president of Poets' Theatre: "Founded to produce original plays of literary and dramatic excellence...
...Richard Eberhart, first president of the Poets' Theatre, arranged the Cambridge reading after scheduling a similar appearance at Wheston College, where be teaches...
Poets Archibald MacLeish, Richard Eberhart, and Richard Wilbur will read form their own works, while Thomas verse will be read by Ivor A. Richards, University Professor. Poetess Marianne Moore may also read...
...Richard Eberhart's contribution, "The Apparition," was the weakest of the four, though it came closest to being a play. Unfortunately, it tried to be two plays, one within the other, all within fifteen minutes. Except for an amusing performance by Kay Levy the acting was choppy and hampered by a pointless script, the last part of which consisted of quite a lot of words in no particular order. Lyon Phelps' "3 Words in No Time" was the most complex of the plays, but despite careful staging and impressive delivery by Thayer David and Jerry Kilty, it was not entirely...
...Lyon Phelps '45, spokesman for the group, announced last night that the first program would be made up of four one-act plays "Everyman," a masque by John Ashbery '50; "Interlude," by Richard Eberhart; "Try! Try!" by Francis O'Hara '50; and "A Play About Three Words," by Phelps. All of these poets have had poems published...