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...drama, "The Child," by Elizabeth McFadden, author of the second Craig prize play, "The Product of the Mill," will be staged for the first time in Boston, when the play opens at the Plymouth Theatre, Wednesday evening...
...promising plays by present and former pupils of Professor Baker before the final working over of the plays for professional production, are: Miss Florence Lincoln, author of the first Craig prize play, "The End of the Bridge"; J. F. Ballard, A.M. '11, author of "Believe Me, Xantippe"; Elizabeth McFadden, author of "The Progress of Mrs. Alexander...
...line-ups today will be as follows: HARVARD. PENNSYLVANIA. Browne, g. g., Laird Rushmore or McCall, r.f.b. l.f.b., Pennel Blair, l.f.b. r.f.b., Simms Grant or Weston, r.h.b. l.h.b., Dunstan Lowrey, c.h.b. c.h.b., Bell Hallowell, l.h.b. r.h.b., Rodriguez Locke, r.o.f. l.o.f., Hopkins Murdoch, r.i.f. l.i.f., McFadden Needham, c.f. c.f., Meet Greene, l.i.f. r.i.f., Jones Byng, l.o.f. r.o.f., Husband...
There is considerable difference between the two plays that have taken the Craig Prize. The new play is a little melodramatic. Where the first dealt with a doctor's family and his friends, Miss McFadden's play leaves polite society after the first act for the cotton mills of South Carolina. Though its theme is not primarily the abuses of child labor, they have a considerable importance in the drama. Last year the four acts of the prize play passed in only two rooms. This year the play will call for four settings, including the interior of a spinning room...
...manuscript, though production on the stage may reverse the values, is the question of child labor. The lost child is found working in a Southern cotton mill under the usual unhealthful conditions; indeed in danger of life and limb from a broken machine. In this purely incidental manner Miss McFadden shows much more vividly the problem and the horrors of child slavery than many another playwright who has avowedly written of it alone...