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...slept on the hickory-topped tables, too broke to pay $3 a month for a room. At 24, hospitalized with a mild case of tuberculosis, he began to think about writing plays. Primed on Ibsen and Strindberg, he enrolled in Professor George Pierce Baker's famed 47-Workshop at Harvard. His first published play, The Web, was set in a squalid boardinghouse. Its three main characters (not counting an illegitimate baby in the cradle) were a prostitute, a pimp and a murderer. The play's opening line was: "Gawd! What a night...
...four-cylinder, 25½-h.p. gasoline engine, which, its makers claim, packs more power per pound than other water-cooled engines, was put on the market by the Aerojet-General Corp., bossed by former Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. The engine is for industrial, farm and home workshop use. Price...
Theatre at Harvard has been ailing ever since George Pierce Baker moved his famous 47 Workshop to Yale in 1926. There have been temporary recoveries when unusually interested and talented students formed energetic dramatic groups, but with the graduation of these students, a relapse invariably set in. Recent years have seen flashes of brilliance, such as certain productions by the Veterans' Workshop and the Theatre Group, but these were balanced by long periods of stagnation...
...settle the basic problem of continuity. First, under the capable direction of Robert Chapman and Mrs. Mary Howe, the lab could furnish a constant reservoir of trained actors and actresses from which undergraduate productions could draw. More important, however, is its great promise as a successor to the 47 Workshop, in providing a focus and inspiration to the now chaotic dramatic scene...
Excursion (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBCTV) is the Ford Foundation TV-Radio Workshop's half-hour for children (between 8 and 16), but since it does not talk down to children, grownups will probably like it too. Its ambition is "to wake children up, open some windows, let in some fresh air, and establish values for them." Actor Burgess Meredith, in a friendly, easygoing manner, takes the kids on a variety of jaunts which have already included a sail down the Mississippi with Huckleberry Finn (with Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson playing Jim, the slave), a visit to Harry Truman...