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...truly the prize occupation is that of the Monkey Deporter, who is not, as might be supposed, a collector for Ring-ling or the Bronx, but is more like an animated scarecrow. In Northern India, there is a small brown monkey which is a pest to fruit cultivators, but is protected none-the-less by the Hanuman, the Monkey-God. This powerful divinity sends a dire pestilence upon all who injure his suppliants, as seems to have been the fashion with the gods of Greece as well. To avoid such a penalty, the growers have a corps of monkey catchers...
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...