Word: one-act
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
...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...