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...Dramatic Club sends out a call for plays for the coming spring production. Competitors are reminded that the last day to hand in manuscripts is February 10. This contest is mainly for one-act plays, since it has been the custom of the club in the past to present three short pieces in the spring. A wide range of treatment and subject is aimed at and authors who have short plays that are in any way unusual are urged to submit them. Really good one-act plays are acceptable and any of unusual merit will be given the best possible...
Folowing "Yvon the Daring," a one-act tragedy by Miss Anna MacDonald, there will be given a revival of the old "Revesby Sword Play," a very interesting and novel set of dances broken by snatches of nonsensical burlesque. The last play on the program, "The Chimes," was written by a former member of Professor Baker's course at Radcliffe, Miss Elizabeth McFadden, also the author of "The Product of the Mill...
...follow the same policy. There is a possibility, however, that a long play will be produced, and if the judges find one that is above the average the club may be willing to vary from its usual practice. It is possible, also, that on short and one moderately long play may be produced on the same evening, following the nature of the presentation this fall. Members of the University are urged to submit plays, especially one-act pieces, of any character, serious or light. Manuscripts should be sent to J. K. Hodges. Randolph 13, or to I. Pichel, Brentford...
...detailed regulations governing the competition for the best one-act play submitted to the Princess Theatre, New York, before February 1, 1914, have just been announced. The author of the play accepted will be awarded a prize of $500, and the play will be produced at the Princess Theatre on. West 39th street. All undergraduates of the following eleven universities are eligible for the competition: Annapolis, Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, Vassar, and West Point...
...management of the Princess Theatre, New York City, offers a prize of $500 for the best one-act play by a student of Harvard, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Vassar College, Cornell, Barnard College, Yale, Bryn Mawr College, the U. S. Naval Academy or the U. S. Military Academy. No limitations as to the type of play are imposed, but in making the award those plays which, in the opinion of the committee, conform to the policy of the Princess Theatre to produce plays unique or unusual in theme or treatment, will be most seriously considered. Because a play...