Word: kinkead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next three years the Dramatic Club offered a series of one-act plays, all written by Harvard students or graduates. A dramatization of Thomas Hardy's "The Three Strangers" was done with mediocre results, since the plot did not lend itself well to stage production. Cleves Kinkead, who was studying at Harvard in 1914 and whose "Common Clay" won the Craig prize for the same year, wrote "The Four Flushers," which the Dramatic Club produced. On the same bill was "The Clod," by E. L. Beach '13. "The Clod" has since toured the country on various vaudeville circuits...
Last year the Morosco Prize was won by Miss Rachel B. Butler, whose winning play, "Mamma's Affair", had a long run in New York. Other University prize plays in the past which have had successful runs have been Frederick Ballard's "Believe Me, Xantippe," and Cleves Kinkead's "Common Clay," each of which won the Craig Prize given in other years under conditions similar to those of the Morosco Prize...