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Following in the footsteps of Oliver Morosco, in the "legitimate" drama, Mr. Thomas Ince recently offered to any and every Columbia student who could write a moving picture scenario suitable for his needs, a prize of $2,000. Mr. Ince recently addressed the moving picture class at Columbia on the art of writing moving picture scenarios...
That the Oliver Morosco Prize Play, "Mamma's Affair," by Rachel Barton Butler of Radcliffe and the 47 Workship, is being received with enthusiasm is shown by the fact that on its first presentation in Washington all first-night records of attendance were broken, and at present at the Little Theatre in New York seats are selling six weeks in advance. This play was first produced in the 47 Workshop in January of last year; then, when it was accepted by Oliver Morosco and produced by him the first presentation was given in Providence, where it stayed for a week...
This is the Harvard Prize Play, for which Mr. Morosco, rather than Mr. Craig, offered the prize this year, and the new comedy by one Rachel Barton Butler, is, by a considerable margin, the best product of English 47 yet sent from the cloistered halls of Cambridge to try its luck in the hurly burly of the commercial theatre. There is no more interesting comedy on view in New York today, and, if it were as well played as it deserves to be, there would be few so well worth going to see. As it is, you'd better...
...striking tribute to the excellence of the work being done by students in English 47 and 47a, under the direction of Professor G. P. Baker '87, was given in a letter from Mr. Morosco to Professor Baker which reads as follows...
...judges in this competition were Professor Baker, Mr. Winthorp Ames '95 and Mr. Morosco...