Word: scarecrow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After such achievements the Dramatic Club was given the opportunity of at- tempting something more ambitious. The Graduate Advisory Committee, consisting of Professor George Pierce Baker '87, Winthrop Ames '95, then Director of the New Theatre, and H. T. Parker '89, dramatic critic of the Transcript, selected "The Scarecrow" by Percy MacKaye '97. This play was presented with much distinction in the fall of 1909 and instantly increased the prestige of the club, securing its reputation as "a dramatic organization of unusual versatility and notable accomplishment...
...Thousand Years Ago," by Percy MacKaye '97, author of the "Scarecrow" and "Tomorrow," will be given its first-night production at the Shubert Theatre this evening. The play is a poetic romance the basic legend of which has been treated before by Gozzi, the Italian dramatist, and by Schiller. Last year, as produced by Reinhardt with his new scenery, the Gozzi-Schiller version, which is called "Turandot," had a great vogue in Germany. But when brought to this country and tried out on the American public it failed. It was then suggested that Mr. MacKaye was the right person...
...Little Theatre of Philadelphia aims to do what Winthrop Ames's Little Theatre of New York is doing, but on a smaller scale. It is under the stage direction of Frank Reicher who was coach of the Dramatic Club three years ago. When Percy MacKaye's "Scarecrow" was put on the professional stage, he took the part which T. M. Spelman '13 created when it was acted here...
...which is now appearing in Boston; two of them, "The Nigger", and "Salvation Nell" have been very marked successes. E. G. Knoblauch '96 has also produced a play in New York. In connection with these it is almost needless to mention the dramas of Percy MacKaye '97, especially "The Scarecrow", produced in 1910, and "The Faith-healer" of William Vaughn Moody...
...Players at Harvard and at a large number of other universities. In 1905, he published a tragedy entitled "Fenris the Wolf", and a year later "Jeanne d'Arc", which was produced by E. H. Southern and Julia Marlowe in both America and England. His next important works were "The Scarecrow" and "Mater", both written in 1908, the latter of which was put on the stage in New York and San Francisco by Henry Miller. In addition to these, he has written a number of minor odes and poems...