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...this statement, but we can point out several striking exceptions. Among the comparatively few really noteworthy American dramatists two Harvard men stand out with particular prominence, and another has begun a career of great promise. These men are William V. Moody '93, Percy W. MacKaye '97, and Edward B. Sheldon...
...while the author was still in college and in connection with work in one of the courses in the English department. The criticisms of the play have naturally been concerned in considerable measure with the author himself, this being his first production, and they have been extremely favorable. Mr. Sheldon has made an auspicious start. He should prove a valuable addition to the all too limited group of real American dramatists...
Since its first production in Providence on November 12, "Salvation Nell," the play by E. B. Sheldon '08 in which Mrs. Fiske is acting, has been the subject of much favorable comment in the press. It is practically the unanimous verdict of the critics that Mr. Sheldon has produced a work of great power...
...Edward Sheldon, the author of 'Salvation Nell,' in which Mrs. Fiske made her appearance at the Hackett Theatre, is only 23 years old. Ten years hence, when he has become a still more successful and well-seasoned playwright, he will probably stand abashed at the remembrance of all he did and dared in his maiden effort. For however much traditions may be shocked and polite conventionalities shattered, the fact must go on record that this boy from Harvard, backed only by the courage of his own convictions, and with Mrs. Fiske as both actress and stage manageress standing...
...Sheldon has been well trained in the technical understanding and resource that can be taught-that are taught, indeed, at Harvard-and he has profited by his training. Admirable and surprising in the first act is his willingness to suggest his characters as they come and go, and not particularize in minute exposition. He is willing even that they disclose themselves and imply their own backgrounds. Oftener, however, the higher technique that would have saved him from some of his confusions and changes of key, for example, and that each man must learn for himself in his chosen profession, evades...