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Professor George P. Baker '87, professor of dramatic literature and director of the 47 Workshop will not be in the University next year, it became known yesterday. He has received a leave of absence, and will spend the summer at the University of California and the winter abroad...
Massachusetts Hall was built in 1720 as a dormitory. In recent years it has fallen into disuse, however, and at present it is confined chiefly to the use of college janitors, Yard police, and the 47 Workshop...
There are, however, disquieting features in the proposed plan. The college police and janitors may find quarters in almost any building about the square and by judicious crowding the economic tutors can find places in the officers of Holyoke House, but the 47 Workshop is apparently left without a home. Since it manages to get along without its own stage or theatre it might be expected with equal ingenuity to discover some neglected basement in which to construct scenery and rehearse its plays...
...product of Prof. George P. Baker's Harvard 47 Workshop is true to the pattern, using a revivalistic meeting to disclose the name of the seducer of a girl who has been betrayed, despite her heavily ingrained religiosity. Aside from this feature, chief interest in Roscoe W. Brink's play is atmospheric, its locale being laid in an out-of-the-way community in the Catskills where piety is the main business and every other interest subsidiary. Here, in 1870, the elders, on finding a girl has been misled, hasten her marriage to the son of the village...
...enough for college dramatic clubs and workshops merely to advance the mechanical technique of staging plays. A race of dramatists is even more necessary. If the prediction to Halcott Glover that by a rebirth of idealism drama will be swung from its morbid tendency to realism and attain its true "place in human and international under standing" is correct, it would seem that the first signs of a dramatic revival ought to appear in the work of college and universities; for seeds of idealism find but scant nourishment along. Broadway Should Princeton's new theatre inspire talented dramatists as well...