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Presenting "The Patriarch," a play written by Boyd Smith, Professor George Pierce Baker '87 formally opened the new Yale University Theatre last week...
...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 it was bought for New York production at the end of the second act on the first night of performance...
...matter of public amusement; yet grave doubts may be held whether all readers can yet withstand Author Allen's affecting periods. The world is now thought to be safe for democracy of the sexes, yet there is more than one reading for the tag in Critic Ernest Boyd's learned introduction: Plus ca change, plus c'est la méme chose...
...just a moron; to America he is something more." To be exact he is a movement, a symbol, a danger, a type he is anything but an individual. This tendency of Americans to make shibboleths of casual remarks of foreigners and men without countries is responsible, thinks Mr. Boyd, for the inferiority complex which we are now suffering. Nor will ruminating on the subject make us less inferior...
These defenders of national vanity, such as Mr. Boyd, are cheering souls. But for them the average citizen might be tempted to seek the river and thus rid himself of it all. Having psycho-analyzed its condition, mental and economic, for the last decade, the nation may now turn to the business of convalescing from its shame. To be an American does not always mean to be a boorish wretch,, unconscious of the higher things in life. Without degenerating into flagwaving one may easily endure a comparison of the United States with its most caustic critics...