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...popular novel of the type of "The Masquerader" is that your audience knows your secret before the curtain rises. Moreover, in the case of "The Masquerader" it is scarcely necessary to have read the book to know how the play will end. So if you are a young playwright like Mr. John Hunter Booth, the only thing that will save so innocent and helpless an offspring is dialogue, atmosphere, distinction, what you will. Mr. Booth's solution is evidently anticlimax. There is one end at the end of Act 2; another at the beginning of Act 3. The rest...
...issue, the Alumni Bulletin suggests that Harvard undergraduates are being deprived of an opportunity when they miss hearing a lecture by Mr. John Masefield. This statement is undoubtedly not an exaggeration. Mr. Masefield stands in the first rank among present-day poets, and has also a reputation as a playwright. Some of the works by which he has won wide recognition ares "Salt Water Ballads," "A Tarpaulin Muster," "Captain Margaret," "The Street of Today," and "The Daffodil Fields." Among his plays which have been produced are: "The Campden Wonder," "Man," and "Pompey the Great." At Yale, at the University...
...year. This is the nineteenth annual production of the Delta Upsilon but only once before has Shakespere been represented. Usually the more unfamiliar works of the lesser Elizabethans have been reproduced, but this year a Shakesperian play has been settled upon, in honor of the tercentenary of the great playwright's death...
...Workshop will give the second performance of "Plots and Playwrights," by G. E. Massey '15, in Agassiz House this evening at 8 o'clock. The play, which is written in two parts and an introduction, after the same fashion as "Between the Lines," the Craig Prize play, is a satire on popular playwrights. The three scenes which make up the first part are laid on different floors of a typical New York boarding house. The second part is the popular Broadway playwright's telescoping of these three scenes and is a keen satire on some of last winter...
...Workshop will give its second production of the year. "Plots and Play wrights," by G. E. Massey '15, in Agassiz House this evening at 8 o'clock. The play is a satire on popular playwrights and is written in two parts and an introduction. The first part contains three scenes, each laid on a different floor of a New York boarding house. The second part is the popular Broadway playwright's telescoping of these three scenes and is a lively satire on some of the plays seen in New York last winter. The experiment of having the scenery and lighting...