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...Poets' Theatre, a volunteer group, its mostly private workshop plays Palmer Street theatre. However, group does put on three major a year for the public...
...theatre at Harvard goes at least to George Pierce Baker '87. of Dramatic Literature and of the 47 Workshop in which many American playwrights studied, pleaded with the University for years for a theatre. Edward S. offered President Lowell $1 to set up a drama school, but was turned down and Harkness the money to Yale. Baker soon went Haven to head the School...
...most impressive ballet realm in the Western world. Under her feminine but emphatic control: the Royal Ballet (formerly Sadler's Wells), now twirling through its sixth U.S. tour; a second, full-fledged company currently holding the fort at home; the Royal Ballet School, and a post-graduate workshop for ballet teachers...
...parents, most of them professional people and graduates of the best colleges in the country, Melody Workshop in Berkeley, Calif, seemed an ideal nursery school. It was run by imaginative Lila Joralemon, 35, who considers bright preschoolers capable of more than mindless play. Using music-a sure fascinator for children aged 3½ to 5-she taught the alphabet, French, good manners and good music itself. But last week Mrs. Joralemon, daughter of a Los Angeles school superintendent who for years fought against excessive permissiveness in education, was losing the same battle. To state welfare officials, her Melody Workshop...
...them," said one delighted mother. But last fall came trouble: a visit by a lady inspector from the State Department of Social Welfare, which regulates all California day nurseries on the theory that they are not educational establishments. A "play school" devotee, the inspector expressed shock at Melody Workshop's "regimentation." She ordered the school closed, cited technical violations, e.g., the inadequacy of play space. No sooner had Mrs. Joralemon measured her play space (and found more than enough to meet the law) than she was charged with an illegal shortage of toys. Among dozens on the required list...