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Providing the most comprehensive training in stagecraft since the "47 Workshop," a school of drama for the summer school was announced yesterday by University officials, under the instruction of Leonard M. Barker and John M. Brown of New York and Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
What Notre Dame is to intercollegiate football, the University of Washington (Seattle) is to intercollegiate rowing. Not only do practically all the racing shells used by U. S. college crews come from the tiny workshop of famed George Pocock on the Washington campus, but of the 19 U. S. colleges which maintain crews, 18 have Washington-trained oarsmen on their coaching staffs, eight have Washington-trained head coaches. Last week, the newest Washington-trained head coach made his debut as such in the first important event of the eastern rowing season. He was Tom Bolles of Harvard, appointed last autumn...
...Armory. In five minutes they would begin to enact the most ambitious radio play ever attempted in the U. S., The Fall of the City. Pulitzer Prize Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, Panic) had written it. Director Irving Reis of Columbia's Workshop of the Air had persuaded Orson Welles, one of the country's ablest classical actors, to take the leading role and that morning Burgess Meredith (High Tor, Winterset), the most promising juvenile on the U. S. stage, had walked in, asked for and been given a part. With notables...
When in 1925 Professor George P. Baker and his famous '47 workshop migrated to Yale, with his course went Harvard's 25-year position as a college which at least recognized the theatre. This new Poet's Theatre is one of the more vigorous efforts to reestablish the University's prestige in the dramatic realm. The movement is the fruit of persistent labor on the part of undergraduates, for little official recognition has been given the stage at Harvard since Professor Baker's regime...
...Franklin Roosevelt graciously greeted a gathering of writers, critics and reporters last week at the Manhattan "editorial workshop'' of Philadelphia's Ladies' Home Journal. Momentarily lost in the bulky herd of Rockefeller Center office buildings, Mrs. Roosevelt had arrived a little late and out of breath at her own party. Its purpose was to inform the world that Ladies' Home Journal will appear next week with the first installment of "This Is My Story," Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt's autobiography. These memoirs were billed as the first ever -written by a First Lady while...