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...third production of its fifth season the 47 Workshop will produce "Rusted Stock," a four-act play of New England life and influences by Miss Doris Halman, Radcliffe 1G, a member of English 47a. Miss Halman also wrote "Will of the Wisp," the one-act phantasy which was given as a curtain raiser for the first Workshop production of the present year...
...Workshop will inaugurate its fifth season with two performances on December 8 and 9 at Agassiz House. The bill includes a one-act fantasy, "Will-o'-the-Wisp," by Miss Doris Halman, and a farce-comedy in three acts, "The Colonel's Connupence," by Miss Katherine Clugston. Both authors are in the advanced course in playwrighting, English 47a, at Radcliffe...
...consequence its productions and the men connected with them have come to mean something in the theatre. Only once in the history of the Dramatic Club has it presented a play not written by a Harvard man. And there is no better way to start a one-act play than to have it produced by this society...
...Gammer Gurton's Needle" will be but one of the many interesting plays to be given by the Portmanteau Theatre company during the fall and winter season, when the theatre--a movable, portable playhouse--will be shown in the majority of the principal cities from coast to coast. In addition to a number of plays by Mr. Walker himself, there will be shown several by Lord Dusany, whose "Night at an Inn" is now the biggest one-act sensation that the New York stage has had for many years. Mr. Walker has secured the exclusive American rights to Dusany...
...Servir" is a war drama in two acts, by Henri Lavedan, and "Edgar et sa Bonne," by Labiche, is a one-act farce. The "Servir" was first produced in Paris in 1913 at the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt, and, with the foremost of modern French actors, M. Gintry, in the chief role, was highly successful. It was written while the trouble between France and Morocco was still going on, and, very appropriately to the talk of today, it shows the struggle between a militarist father of the old school and a pacifist son with modern ideas. Although the play was composed...