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...stolen throne into a ghost-jungle, is being acted again by Charles Gilpin. Theatregoers remember that, after the first season, Actor Gilpin's work was authoritatively acclaimed the finest acting of the year. Evidently the part has palled upon him, for his present work rings hollow, artificial. Yet for those who have never heard the throb of the tom-toms coming nearer, beating louder, ominously, faster, the play will prove a revelation of what can be done with mechanical atmosphere. At the Mayfair Theatre, it is preceded by a one-act satirical comedy, In 1999, William de Mille, author...
...University or Radcliffe. The first venture was "The Promised Land," by Allan Davis, '07. The merit of the production did much to establish the calibre of work which could be expected of the Harvard Dramatic Club. Hermann Hagedorn, '07 poet and playwright, wrote two of the four one-act playlets which comprised the next bill--presented in the spring...
...next three years the Dramatic Club offered a series of one-act plays, all written by Harvard students or graduates. A dramatization of Thomas Hardy's "The Three Strangers" was done with mediocre results, since the plot did not lend itself well to stage production. Cleves Kinkead, who was studying at Harvard in 1914 and whose "Common Clay" won the Craig prize for the same year, wrote "The Four Flushers," which the Dramatic Club produced. On the same bill was "The Clod," by E. L. Beach '13. "The Clod" has since toured the country on various vaudeville circuits...
...that the heroine can have both a career and a husband with a good job and the right personality. Such a philosophy of transmigration, in short, as might make the Buddha so far forget himself as to grind his teeth in Nirvana. The series of episodes, themselves, are intriguing one-act playlets, little snapshots through the ages, each sufficient unto itself, the sum total going to make up an unusually superficial outline of history. Antoinette Perry's rich voice frequently makes the wooden dialogue come to life. Hugh Buckler's virile characterizations also help...
...repertoire consisted of one three-act play, 'The Dragon' by Lady Gregory, and three one-act plays, 'Love is the Best Doctor' by Moliere, 'Paolo and Francesca' by Stephen Phillips, and 'The Gentleman in Black' by W. S. Gilbert. We gave these performances on successive nights...