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Below, the CRIMSON prints a review of the four-act play "The Product of the Mill," by Miss E. A. McFadden, of Radcliffe, which was announced on Saturday as the winner of the Craig Prize for 1911. The play which won the prize last year was the well-known "The End of the Bridge," by Miss Florence L. Lincoln, also of Radcliffe, which went through over 100 performances at the Castle Square Theatre last winter. "The Product of the Mill" will be produced at the same place immediately after the Christmas holidays...
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...
...Craig prize in dramatic composition has been awarded to Miss Elizabeth Apthorp McFadden, L.B., a graduate student in Radcliffe College, for a play in four acts. This prize is open to undergraduates of Harvard College and of Radcliffe College, and, under limitations, to graduates of both. By the terms of the prize the successful competitor is given $250 and is promised a production of the play within a stated time. In addition the Harvard University Library is given $250 for the purchase of books on the history of the English stage...
Holbrook Blinn is still playing in "The Boss," by E. B. Sheldon '08, and W. A. Brady is preparing for production "Romance," another play by the same author. Sheldon is now at work on a piece which will be used by Miss Dorothy Donnolly during the coming season...
...four-act farce-comedy "Mrs. Thompkins," which was written last year in English 47 by Miss Agnes L. Crimmins of Radcliffe, has been taken by Miss May Irwin and will go into rehearsal on Monday. The play will go to New York about the middle of the winter...