Word: productions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Below, the CRIMSON prints a review of the four-act play "The Product of the Mill," by Miss E. A. McFadden, of Radcliffe, which was announced on Saturday as the winner of the Craig Prize for 1911. The play which won the prize last year was the well-known "The End of the Bridge," by Miss Florence L. Lincoln, also of Radcliffe, which went through over 100 performances at the Castle Square Theatre last winter. "The Product of the Mill" will be produced at the same place immediately after the Christmas holidays...
...play is in quite another vein from that of Miss Lincoln's. Where "The End of the Bridge" gradually evolved the story of Peter and at the same time showed the recovery of a woman's mental balance and her growing love-for the doctor that saved her, "The Product of the Mill" is a simple narrative of a mother's search for a child, a narrative that might end at any moment if the necessary words were spoken, but that keeps on for the regulation two hours and three-quarters. It may be a little early to speak...
...principal interest in "The Product in the Mill" lies in a mother's search for a child abducted nine years before. Driven to desperation, she leaves her home to try to do what the detectives have failed in, and, of course, she succeeds. A subsidiary interest in the typewritten manuscript, though production on the stage may reverse the values, is the question of child labor. The lost child is found working in a Southern cotton mill under the usual unhealthful conditions; indeed in danger of life and limb from a broken machine. In this purely incidental manner Miss McFadden shows...
...success of "The Product of the Mill" will depend on the effect of the children and their speeches. They are much better written than anyof the other dialogues in the piece. There is a pathetic humor running through them that may prove deeply touching. Even in the manuscript, the picture of suffering childhood in the mill is vivid. On these elements of humanness the popular appeal of the play must rest, much more than upon the somewhat commonplace story that it tells.--Boston Transcript
...Moody, the author of the "Faith Healer," is one of the younger American dramatists, the product of Harvard's training in English literature and dramatic art. Regarding his work we quote briefly from an article by Professor Baker which appeared recently in the Graduates' Magazine: "In both plays ('The Great Divide' and the 'Faith Healer') we face drama not merely entertaining or amusing, but stimulative of thought about certain phases of American life--stimulative because conceived in thought and developed by close thinking. Again, too, we face the unconventional, for in 'The Great Divide' Mr. Moody handles situations from which...