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...place. The first play given was "The Simms-Vane Incident," written by J. E. Pillot Sp. Miss Doris Halman 1G, who is playing the part of Lucille, was the author of "Rusted Stock," presented by the Workshop twice last March, and also of "Will o' the Wisp," a one-act fantasy, which was given in December...
...shop's sixth season will be inaugurated on November 16 and 17, when three one-act plays will be produced at Agassiz House under the direction of Professor G. P. Baker '87. The plays selected for presentation are: "The Simms Vane Incident," by J. E. Pillot, Sp.; "Three Pills in a Bundle," by Rachael Field, graduate student at Radcliffe; and "The Good Men Do," by Shubert Osborne...
Since the Toy Theatre in Boston has ceased to offer amateur plays, the 47 Workshop is the only organization in the vicinity devoted entirely to the production of drama written and acted solely by amateurs. The casts of the three one-act sketches presented are being formed at present...
With plot-ingredients enough to make a brilliant little one-act farce, the producers of "His Bridal Night," now playing at Ye Wilbur Theatre, have spread the material at hand through three acts of more or less questionable uproariousness. Success of farce is due largely to the rapidity with which the thing moves, and certainly two or three big scenes, no matter how ludicrous, are not sufficient to keep a laugh-hungry audience busy for a full evening. This deficiency has evidently been noticed by the sponsors of the play, so they have sought to hide it under a copiousness...
...Dramatic Club presented its spring group of one-act plays in the Hasty Pudding Theatre last evening. The performance showed the result of some extremely competent coaching by the new director, Mr. S. A. Eliot, in a general evenness of acting and quietness and realism of tone. Exception might possibly be taken to the sombre quality of all four of the plays produced. The curtain rose on a death bed, but the general atmosphere of gloom which dominated the second and third of the plays made the first piece seem almost a merry trifle. It is called "The Harbour...