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These words were spoken last week in Camden, N. J., by a man with a torrent of white beard, clad in loose-fitting, almost shabby clothing. The man was masquerading as Walt Whitman in Christopher Morley's tart one-act play, Walt. Author Morley, smiling, robustious, pensive, was present as master of ceremonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Walt Whitman College | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...five years the Little Theatre Tournament, held in Manhattan for the David Belasco Cup, has symbolized the removal of amateur theatricals from small-town drawing-rooms and carriage sheds to more or less formal theatres. The contestants produce one-act plays only, either new or published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Belasco Cup | 5/16/1927 | See Source »

Examples of pure community self-expression, without fruits of creation, are the Dallas Little Theatre, strictly amateur, celebrated for its capture of the Belasco Cup for one-act productions the past three years; and the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where what counts is the number of citizens performing. The Boston Repertory, strictly professional, is an opposite type-a non-profit-making institution with a permanent staff and inveterate audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Play House | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...following prereview of the three one-act plays to be given tonight at Agassiz Theatre by the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies was written by a member of the English Department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENORAH SOCIETIES TO PRESENT THREE PLAYS | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies will make their second venture in the field of dramatics at Agassiz House Radcliffe, on Saturday evening, April ninth. The success of the three one-act plays produced last year has prompted a second performance of three short plays: "Matches", by David Liebovitz; "Hunger", by Eugene Pilot; and "An Idyll of the Shops', by Ben Hecht and Kenneth Sawyer Goodman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Menorah Societies to Give Plays | 4/7/1927 | See Source »

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