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...Meredith ended the farce by eloping with a portrait painter. Meredith worked on alone for a while, a crusty grass widower. He became a reader for the publishing firm of Chapman & Hall, promptly turned down one of history's biggest bestsellers, Mrs. Henry Wood's East Lynne, His acceptance of such newcomers as Thomas Hardy and George Gissing never attained the fame of his rejection slips, which turned back Samuel Butler's Erewhon ("Will not do"), and Shaw's early novels, Cashel Byron's Profession and Immaturity...
Smith said he expects very few expenses in running the lab, since the four teachers, who include Robert Chapman, Professor of English and Mrs. Mary Howe are volunteering their services...
...hope," said Chapman, "that the lab will be an impetus to acting of this kind in America as well as a training place and proving ground for undergraduate productions...
...will focus on basic techniques of diction and pantomime. Chapman said he and Mrs. Howe would spend two hours a week in acting instruction. Students will be asked to spend at least two other hours a week, probably divided between fencing and ballet instruction and memory work for the acting classes...
...still has no place to meet. Until a permanent location is found, the acting classes will meet either in Chapman's room in Eliot House or in Mrs. Howe's home...