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...Thornton Wilder et al. but was soon washed from the campus in an ocean of afternoon tea. The War took Philip Barry to the U. S. Embassy at London because weak eyes kept him out of military service. The desire to write plays took him back to the 47 Workshop. The need to make a living temporarily shunted him into the advertising business (McCann-Erickson, Inc.). When he heard that The Youngest, his first professionally produced play, was to be presented on Broadway he was on his way to Europe, with very little money, on his honeymoon. The bride...
...permanent closing of the Drama School, so long trembling on the verge of dissolution, probably ends for some time the attempt to regain for Harvard the eminence of the "47 Workshop." Under the circumstances, its passing is undoubtedly for the best, however much it may be regretted by the members of the school. No institution struggling indefinitely under a crushing financial burden can fulfill its purpose adequately...
...fringe of Detroit's residential district, two blocks west of Grand Circus Park. A bronze tablet at the theatre's entrance preserves the record of what happened there. The Fords then lived at 58 Bagley Street and the. shed which "went with the house" was Henry Ford's workshop. In 1893 Governor John J. Bagley's mansion stood across the street a block and a half to the east. Today the Statler Hotel stands there; across the street from the shed's site is now a transcontinental bus station...
Play writing develops and stimulates creative ability, a phase which universities, Harvard in particular, are inclined to overlook. Formerly this aspect was treated by Professor George Pierce Baker and the 47 Workshop, and it is the gap left by his exodus that the Cambridge School of the Drama attempted to fill...
...evenings of December 16, 17, and 18, at 8.20 o'clock. The play, which portrays the tragedy of Charles Lamb's life, torn between devotion for his sister and for a neighbor, Hester Savory, is being directed by Edward Massey '15, a former student of the 47 Workshop. Mr. Massey has coached the Club in three recent plays, and finds, in this play of Joan Temple's abundant opportunity for picturesque scenery and period costumes, as well as for dramatic moments, and character portrayals of Lamb's literary contemporaries...