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...subject of congratulation for Harvard that its graduates are attaining success in that most difficult field, the writing of plays. The University looks with pride upon the achievements of such men as Edward Sheldon and Vaughn Moody, and upon the stamp of popular approval which was put upon "Salvation Nell" and "The Great Divide." The fact that John Frederick Ballard, a second year graduate student in 1911-12, has this year won the Craig Prize, is extremely satisfactory from Harvard's view point. Indeed, there seems to be a general quickening of interest in the theatre. It is with pleasure...
...writer of plays for the Dramatic Club, David Carb '09, has had a play produced in New York. E. B. Sheldon '08, the first president of the club, has produced three plays previous to the one which is now appearing in Boston; two of them, "The Nigger", and "Salvation Nell" have been very marked successes. E. G. Knoblauch '96 has also produced a play in New York. In connection with these it is almost needless to mention the dramas of Percy MacKaye '97, especially "The Scarecrow", produced in 1910, and "The Faith-healer" of William Vaughn Moody...
Edward Sheldon '08, already well known for his "Salvation Nell," "The Nigger," and "The Boss," was last night called upon to bow his thanks at the Plymouth for the hearty reception given his latest play "The Princess Zim-Zim." Although the program labels this piece very simply as "a new play" it might well be called a semi-tragic comedy of realism: a first act of pure and unusually delightful comedy, a second and third of good melo-drama, and finally an epilogue that makes appeals by way of its persistence in sticking to facts, as ordinarily experienced...
...Princess Zim-Zim," a new play by E. B. Sheldon '08, the author of "Salvation Nell," "The Nigger," and "The Boss," will be produced for the first time at the Plymouth Theatre, Boston, Wednesday evening. Dorothy Donnelly who played in "Madame X" last year will take the leading feminine part, and John Barrymore will play the leading male role...
...Nigger" fulfills the promise of "Salvation Nell,"--both good and bad. It is a play full of emotional variation; it thrills the audience and leaves it tired. Excitement is added to horror, and despair to feverish action. Mr. Sheldon exhibits racial hatreds, sinister politics fierce love, and pathetic optimism against a background of a tragic past. It is the story of a Southern governor who discovers that his grandmother was a negress, through the unsolicited investigation of the anti-prohibition interests. Mr. Sheldon has staged the consequences of that discovery with a skiff that is certain, and big with...