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When poet Archibald MacLeish founded the Harvard Radio Workshop, he expected undergraduates to get from this experimental group the experience which, as much as talent, is needed to break into network scripting. But FDR called Archy to Washington, and the Radio Workshop like other creative groups in the College was left with little Faculty contact or support. True to its traditions, it seemed that the English Department was about to tell radio drama (as it once told Professor Baker's stage drama) to go to Yale...
Professor Morison's recent decision to permit course credit to be given in English A and A-1 for plays written in the Workshop competition which starts tonight, however, is a long step away from the traditional mustiness. Without becoming an intellectual service station at which activities are more important than curriculum, Harvard's English Department can well put less emphasis on someone's footnotes to someone's footnotes and more emphasis on preparing and encouraging Harvard men to do creative writing of their...
...supplies were on the way. If the U. S. could turn itself into a workshop for democracy, the democracies were now financially able to use what it produced; if U. S. weapons, or U. S. food, could turn events in Europe or Asia, they could now legally be shipped. U. S. flags were broken out in the shattered streets of London. All over the world the news and its import were heard and realized...
...Frend, and Jonathan Edwards, are presented in conflict with natural man in a verse play entitled "Inquest" by Theodore Spencer, associate professor of English, to be given for the first time over the radio network tonight. The play is directed by Nathaniel Lauriat '48, and produced by the Radio Workshop...
Spencer has tried to exploit all the possibilities of radio to bring out his conflict, and has used the changing rhythms of verse for purposes of contrast. This will be the eighth production of the Radio Workshop...