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...life at the Medical School of the University of Edinburgh. The Club's production will be directed by S. Wesley McKee, who graduated from the Yale School of the Drama. In 1934 and 1935, McKee won first prize in the New York competition for the production and direction of one-act plays...
...famed Poet A. E. Housman, sailed from England, where his play was banned, to Manhattan. "I am," complained he, "the most censored of British playwrights. Bernard Shaw has had only four plays censored. I have had 32." The original version of Victoria Regina was a series of 32 one-act plays. Because three of Victoria's children, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Beatrice and the Princess Louise, were living, the Lord Chamberlain banned them all. Chuckled Playwright Housman last week: "We gave a private performance of the play and one of the ladies in waiting attended for Queen Mary...
...Room In Red & White (by Roy Hargrave: Dwight Deere Wiman & George Kondolf, producers) is a one-act Grand Guignol melodrama about a family poisoning inflated to three acts. The facts that the play was written by Roy Hargrave (House Party), acted by Chrystal Herne and set as for a durbar by Jo Mielziner, do not prevent A Room In Red & White from becoming tedious. Silliest scene: the one in which a fiendish father (Leslie Adams) manages simultaneously to knock flat both his wife and their grown...
Miss Francis is doing her first acting for the Club. The other three girls will be remembered for their appearance in "A Handful of Sheep", one of the freshman one-act plays given last fall...
Under the direction of the Harvard Dramatic Club, Freshman actors will present three one-act plays in the Union tonight...