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Under the direction of Professor S. A. Eliot Jr. '13, the Theatre Workshop of Smith College comes to Boston tomorrow to take part in the Massachusetts Little Theatre Tournament now being held at the Fine Arts Theatre...
...Workshop at Smith was founded seven years ago on the model of Professor Baker's "47 Workshop" at Harvard. Professor Eliot who originated the Workshop at the Northampton college, had much experience in producing plays before he joined the Smith faculty. He worked for a year with Winthrop Ames in New York, and later directed Little Theatre companies in Indianapolis and Cincinnati, and has edited several volumes of one-act plays, published as "The Little Theatre Classics." At Harvard he studied under his uncle, Professor Baker...
...There can be no doubt that work such as is done in the designing of Dramatic Club scenery is of substantial value. Men who worked in Professor Baker's 47 Workshop and in the Dramatic Club have often met immediate success in professional work in New York. Umschlager, who did the work in "The Life of Man," went to New York last year and did several sets for the Theatre Guild that have received widespread approbation. Robert Edmond Jones, a graduate of 1910, is a case in point...
...LeRoy watched the goings on, and when they were over returned to his little workshop uptown with the comfortable feeling that, even if the notables had not paid much attention to him, he was directly, almost solely, responsibile for their party. He had asked them beforehand if they would like to place something truly historic in that cornerstone and when they said "yes," had given them the first four strips of film that any man ever ran through a motion picture projector...
...will notice that the Dramatic Club did not bind itself to produce any or the best of the plays submitted. If, however, a play is deemed of sufficient merit it will be produced. Our action was not to put the Dramatic Club in the former position of the Workshop but to keep alive the interest in the drama around the College by offering a chance to aspiring authors. C. Harlan Johnston '27, Secretary of the Dramatic Club...