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...Workshop of Phidias. At Olympia in the Peloponnesus, site of the original Olympic games, stood one of the most magnificent spectacles of the classical world. The great statue of Zeus by Phidias was almost 40 ft. high, and it showed the god sitting benignly on a golden throne. His face and chest were ivory, and his garment was of beaten gold. Everybody in Greece who claimed to be anybody went to admire the statue and came away ecstatic, and many writers described it, but modern scholars are not sure exactly what it looked like. No bit of it has survived...
...months ago Dr. Kunze and his assistants turned 100 Greek laborers loose on a piece of ground at Olympia that is called "Phidias' workshop" because of a vague belief that the statue of Zeus was made there. Nothing of interest showed at the surface, but about eight feet down the diggers hit odd-shaped objects of baked clay. They were like nothing ever found before, and no two were alike. They varied in size from a few inches across to more than 18 inches. Their edges were reinforced with iron, and the bigger ones had iron bars strengthening their...
...digging in Phidias' workshop has stopped until next fall, with much ground still untouched. Dr. Kunze is sure that he will find more molds. He does not think he can use them to reproduce the entire statue of Zeus, but he hopes that they will reveal what parts of it looked like...
While details are not available due to Baker's absence, it is expected that admission to the course will be very restricted. It is possible that some of the plays written in the course will be produced by the New Theatre Workshop, a part of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...playwrighting course itself offers an excellent opportunity for the stimulation of creative drama. Virtually the first such course since George Pierce baker left Harvard for Yale in 1928, it can join with the HDC's New theater workshop to bring about the same sort of writer-actor cooperation that distinguished Baker's famous '47 Workshop." The best experience a young playwright can have, professor MacLeish has said, is "the blush of shame" that comes when he sees his own place produced. Such beneficial experiences could be commonplace if student-written plays were regularly produced by the Workshop...