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First attempt to teach schoolmen radio technique was made by Ohio State Uni-versity which since 1928 has had a workshop for radio broadcasting. Last week the Conference had news of a novel organization called University Broadcasting Council. Set up in Chicago two years ago by the University of Chicago's Radio Director Allen Miller, the Council helps educators from Chicago, Northwestern and DePaul universities not only to solicit radio time and to split the expenses of broadcasting but also to write good scripts. With a $55,000 budget, Director Miller reported, the Council had provided its members with...
...play was written by Rita Creighton Smith, Radcliffe '16, in Professor George P. Baker's 47 Workshop, and produced that year by the dramatic club...
...graduates several men whose intended career is the theatre and its allied arts, and she may point with pride at many illustrious examples, such as Osgood Perkins, Walter Hampden, Kenneth Macgowan, John Mason Brown, and Donald Oenslager. Back in the days of Professor Baker's English 47 and the Workshop, the stream of Harvard men into the theatre's ranks was steady and large, but with Professor Baker's and the Drama department's migration to New Haven, the torrent dwindled to a mere trickle, fed only by the untiring efforts of the Dramatic Club. The students do not look...
While the original idea of a dramatic workshop came, like many another good thing, from Harvard University, our present facilities are incredibly poor. There is a striking need for the English Department again to provide itself with a real personality of the drama. When this bread is cast upon the waters, there will return such genuine love for the drama, that Harvard will build itself a college playhouse...
Such a figure, however, must approximate the dynamic personality of George Pierce Baker. Those students who supplied the first $800 for the 47 Workshop were Harvard and Radcliffe disciples of Professor Baker who had been thrilled by his magnificent courses in play writing. The Workshop prepared such well-known figures as Philip Barry, John Mason Brown, Edward P. Goodnow, Livingston Platt, and Robert Edmund Jones. Professor Baker was deeply rooted at Harvard, and he wanted to remain where he started his beloved Workshop, the first of its kind in the country. But Yale University, with a special theatre, lured...