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Another lynching was done in Maryland last week, this time not on the ragged Eastern Shore but in the proud old city of Baltimore. The Baltimore Civic Opera Company was responsible when it put on a one-act affair called Swing Low. In it Tenor A. Roy Williams, blacked up as a Negro, was making harmless love to Soprano Elsie Craft (also in blackface) when an operatic mob appeared to drag him offstage to a hanging...
Professor Mather is an old hand at acting, having ably taken the part of "Kohlhard Fax" in a one-act faculty play last...
...Koldhard Fax" will be played by K. F. Mather, professor of Geology, in the presentation of "License Revoked," a one-act play on capital punishment. Mather will be arrayed against Mand Lynn Sentiment, Mrs. Vie Tim Foakes, and Spear I. T. Murder...
...workshop course. Its three sections a week are devoted to training the voice and seeking to obtain--with widely varying results--poise of body and ease of mind. The outside reading is interesting but of minor importance, and the reading period is partly devoted to the production of a one-act play by the members of the course. Especially suited to the desires of the student who wishes definite instruction concerning the business of the theatre as well as instruction in public speaking, the chief attraction of the course is the congenial atmosphere of informality with which it is conducted...
...before he was 23, took his degree in philosophy at Germany's University of Bonn, and went back to Rome to teach Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize one of his stories into a one-act play. With Six Characters in Search of an Author (produced in Rome in 1921) Pirandello leaped into the limelight. He gave up teaching; from a hermit-like professor he soon became a fashionable and active author-manager, rushing to openings by airplane...