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...gift of E. S. Harkness, the new Theatre is the principal adjunct to the activities of the Workshop, transferred a few years ago from the University to Yale. The following article describing the theatre and Professor Baker's work at Yale was written by J. J. Rorlmer '27, a former member of the Workshop who attended last week's performance...
Time passed; there seemed little hope that the 47 Workshop was going to have the facilities which the advantages of modern stagecraft afford. Then came the calm at one of the least hopeful moments in the storm. Professor Baker had accepted, now that Harvard would not or could not furnish him with an equipment, an extremely generous offer from Yale. The funds and plans were arranged: Yale, Mr. Harkness and Professor Baker had announced their mutual willingnes to cooperate in a plan which for almost fourteen years had been the hope and goal of many American people--devotees...
...Saturday night the Harvard workshop, those who had written and acted, as well as the "nervous system" of the Shop, the stage workers and designers, the invited audience of old 47 days invaded New Haven with purely academic and scholastic interest. We came for a grand reunion, to see friends and fellow-enthusiasts of some years ago, but especially to show Mr. Baker and Yale how pleased we were to see what we had worked and hoped for put into practice...
...When the Workshop commenced last year, there were but four people to form the audience; by the end of the year more than three hundred were active followers of the temporary 47 Workshop. For the five opening performances on Friday, Saturday and Monday over five thousand people from the theatre and interested world at large were invited. The "Patriarch," a West Virginia mountain tragedy, by Boyd M. Smith, who was with Professor Baker at Harvard, was chosen for the opening; and although this is not the place for a discussion of the play, it is pleasing to note that...
...students will prepare the case against him and carry on the prosecution and defense, junior law students will testify. A real judge from the St. Louis Circuit Court of Appeals will preside; a real jury of "twelve good men and true" will sit in Professor Wheaton's legal workshop...