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...encouraging to note that the people of the country are, in the mood for better plays. And it has been a pleasure to us actors to read the one-act plays that have come from the 47 Workshop, many of them perfect gems. For we realize what a tremendous force for good 2000 James Barries could exert in this country. Naturally, your Workshop could not trun Barries out of the whole cloth, but certainly it has already shown that it has helped at least a few such to find themselves. But at this time it is pathetic, the note...
...finances of the thing puzzle me, too. If the University cannot afford such a school, why could not Baker have been permitted to raise funds as he offered to do? But really there is no reason why 47 Workshop plays, produced in a college theater, would not become highly popular--and finance the school...
...argue the proposition fully is here impossible. One observation, however, must weight heavily. Admitting that both the 47 Workshop and the Business School, for example, are purely vocational in purpose, it would seem true that a vocational course which trains men in what has long been recognized as an art is of equal and even more importance to a college of liberal arts than a course which trains for tasks which have but recently been dignified by the name of "profession". Drama is one of the great products of human civilisation; "business" is after all only a means...
Washington, D. C., February 18--In his first public pronouncement concerning the resignation of Professor G. P. Baker '87, President Lowell, speaking before the Harvard Club of Washington this evening, stated that the Corporation felt that the 47 Workshop, although doing valuable work, must yield in its demands for expansion to more important departments of the University, in particular to the College where the development of the tutorial system is vital. He said that both he and the Corporation realized Professor Baker's personal value as an instructor but that "a theatre and a permanent school for playwrights would...
...Harvard week, or more appropriately Collier week, at the St. James. Given his first chance to display his real capabilities as an actor, this graduate of the Harvard Dramatic Club and the 47 Workshop was largely responsible for the success of "In the Next Room", the mystery thriller which the Boston Stock Company is putting on this week...