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Below, the CRIMSON prints a review of the four-act play "The Product of the Mill," by Miss E. A. McFadden, of Radcliffe, which was announced on Saturday as the winner of the Craig Prize for 1911. The play which won the prize last year was the well-known "The End of the Bridge," by Miss Florence L. Lincoln, also of Radcliffe, which went through over 100 performances at the Castle Square Theatre last winter. "The Product of the Mill" will be produced at the same place immediately after the Christmas holidays...
...play is in quite another vein from that of Miss Lincoln's. Where "The End of the Bridge" gradually evolved the story of Peter and at the same time showed the recovery of a woman's mental balance and her growing love-for the doctor that saved her, "The Product of the Mill" is a simple narrative of a mother's search for a child, a narrative that might end at any moment if the necessary words were spoken, but that keeps on for the regulation two hours and three-quarters. It may be a little early to speak...
...Moody, the author of the "Faith Healer," is one of the younger American dramatists, the product of Harvard's training in English literature and dramatic art. Regarding his work we quote briefly from an article by Professor Baker which appeared recently in the Graduates' Magazine: "In both plays ('The Great Divide' and the 'Faith Healer') we face drama not merely entertaining or amusing, but stimulative of thought about certain phases of American life--stimulative because conceived in thought and developed by close thinking. Again, too, we face the unconventional, for in 'The Great Divide' Mr. Moody handles situations from which...
...however, our civilization is distinctly mediaeval, inasmuch as our moral codes are based upon personal Intuition and not upon scientific research. Mr. MacKaye believes that if scientific principles are applied to our code of morals, it will be as easy to obtain happiness as to manufacture the most common product...
Even at this late date a football song competition can be made of real advantage if men of musical ability will give time to the composition of effective tunes and appropriate words. Most of the songs which we now have are the product of former competitions of the same sort, and though they are excellent, there is a real need for several new songs of singable quality...