Word: witter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Professor George Pierce Baker, 68, famed teacher of playwrights; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1902, teaching English 47 at Harvard, he let a group of pupils headed by Witter Bynner submit original plays instead of term-end theses. In 1912 Professor Baker's "47 Workshop" was formally organized with cramped working quarters and a small theatre. Professor Baker in 1925 accepted Yale's offer to run its luxurious new $125,000 theatre and drama school. He retired in 1933. Some Baker students: Eugene O'Neill, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Winthrop Ames, Robert Edmond Jones, Robert Benchley...
...summary: 1937 NEW HAMPSHIRE '37 Stevenson, rf. rf., Bishop, Chadokosky Moser, lf. lf., Witter Gray, c. c., Rogean Field, Witherspoon, rg. rg., Hepworth, Nathanson Mason, lg. lg., Webb, Niggerman, Quadron...
EDEN TREE-Witter Bynner-Knopf ($2.50). In the U.S. a poet's lot is not a happy one. Exception: Edgar Albert Guest, whom most of his fellow poets do not regard as a poet at all. Typical modern U.S. poetry does not sell for a good reason: misnamed "lyric," it is actually introspective, exhibitionist, an effort on the poet's part to escape from intellectual nightmare. Witter Bynner's poetic cosmos is top-heavy with intellect but more objective than most; he does not get hysterical about it. His poems are not great but they are masculine...
...Author. In 1916 "Emanuel Morgan" and "Anne Knish" published Spectra, a little book of free verse so cleverly written it fooled many a critic into serious praise. "Anne Knish" was Arthur Davison Ficke; "Emanuel Morgan" was Witter Bynner. A Harvardman, tall and dark, with a high, shining forehead, Bynner has been through the literary mill: as assistant editor of McClure's Magazine, advisory editor to publishers, instructor of English, lecturer on poetry. His two sidelines are poetry and American-Indian and Chinese art. With Kiang Kang-hu he translated a Chinese anthology, Jade Mountain. He lives in Santa...
...criticism of the Dramatic Club production of the Witter Bynner's "Cake" must be made with the fact in mind that, after all, we are not considering a professional performance. As an amateur first night it is fair enough...