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Under the inclusive but indefinite title of "The Drama and the Stage" (Harcourt, Brace), Ludwig Lewisohn has collected into book form a series of random sketches and studies that first appeared in "The Nation." The diminutive essays so collected cover a wide field, include book reviews, play reviews, and by the way studies in the fundamentals in the drama and theatre. Mr. Lewisohn has recognized the difficulties that beset him, and the inevitable criticisms of a volume of sketches written for a particular occasion. "The brief essay and studies that compose this volume are desultory only in appearance" he says...
...many plays and books on the theatre without giving away a theory of both that is "coherent" and profoundly implicated with the permanent qualities of life and art." Such a wide range of criticism, demands as all criticism demands, that same coherency and profound implication realized by Mr. Lewisohn. But in spite of all that "The Drama and The Stage" seems very much the book of the moment. It has therefore two innately good qualities. It is a record of current tendencies in the drama, and a reminder of evening spent in the Theatre. One can read of marionettes, Arthur...
...Lewisohn's essays are smoothly and interestingly written. Occasionally they are startling and surprisingly naive. He says there is not "anything so intricate to understand" in writing a play, and takes away the breath with such a statement as "A born dramatist can write drama without ever having seen a theatre." Perhaps that is sound theory but the world has never been blessed with "a born dramatist" then, for the greater dramatists have almost always been workers in the theatre. His criticisms of books on dramatic technique and on players, production and plays do not seen "desultory" because...
Three prizes are offered by Adolph Lewisohn, president of the National Committee on Prisons, for the best theses on phases of the prison problem, prepared by students in preparatory schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States. One prize of $50 will be awarded for the best Master's thesis. Two prizes of $25 each will be presented to the author of the best undergraduate essay and to the preparatory school student who writes the best essay on the subject...
...National Committee on Prisons announces the award of the prize offered by Mr. Lewisohn last year to three students of Columbia University, New York University and Barnard College respectively. The prize of $50 for a Master's thesis was won by Miss Blanche Rosenthal, of Columbia, the subject of her thesis being "The History of Punishment for Murder." Mr. Harry Berlin, of New York University, was awarded the $25 prize for an undergraduate essay on "Prison Problems," and the other prize of $25 was won by Miss Lucy J. Hayner, of Barnard College, for an essay on "The Prison Farm...