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...John's Memorial Chapel of the Episcopal Theological School at 8. o'clock. The drama is in the manner of the mediaeval "Mystery" plays given originally at great religious festivals for the amusement and information of the ignorant masses who knew little of church history. Members of the Workshop are taking part in the production...
...George Pierce Baker, Master of Dramatic Arts, stand." Thus parodying the formula of commencement exercises, spoke LeBaron R. Briggs, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University. Prof. Baker, founder of the 47 Workshop, famed dramatic school, stood. Around him sat old friends-actors, stage hands, scene painters, electricians, musicians, prompters, auditors, graduates of his course. They had come to hear him express his regret that he was, of his own choice, leaving them, going away to start a dramatic school at Yale, financed by the $1,000,000 Harkness fund (TIME, Dec. 8). They had just...
Members of the Workshop will take part in the drama, and have given assistance in the production...
...fields suitable to their inclinations, until some accident, perhaps, stirs them to expression. I am sure that after Professor Baker's decision had been rendered, an after-thought crept into the minds of some students that they were fitted for just such work as was customary in the Workshop, and that they were being deprived of their inalienable rights, etc., etc. The press thus performed the veritable function of stirring up impulses and inciting efforts, strivings, and in short verve...
...suggestion which Mr. Hammond has made in the article reprinted below is one that will receive the hearty approval of those genuinely interested in the theatre and its development. To choose the best available man to succeed Professor Baker, to strengthen the Workshop further by associating with it men of high ideals actively engaged in developing American drama, are steps which must be taken, and at once. It may be that "an affiliation between Harvard and the Theatre Guild" is impossible; but all things are impossible until they have been tried. The past is bitter; "that way madness lies...